Julius Malema says white people must pay for water and electricity for poor South Africans

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says that rich people, who are the whites, must pay for services for poor South Africans.

Malema made these comments during a speech at the EFF’s second plenum at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg.

He likened paying for water and electricity to paying for school fees, explaining that poor people have free schooling for their children.

He said paying monthly for water and electricity is unfeasible for poor people and that they should be subsidised by rich white people.

“The rich must pay. We must charge them more to subsidise those who cannot pay in the townships,” he said.

“The rich must pay for the poor, because the rich have stolen from the poor. It is time to pay back.”

“The rich are the whites. The rich are the politicians and businessmen who have left us in poverty in the townships.”

Malema said South Africa should be a country where the rich fight for the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.

“We are a country where we are scared of the rich. The rich means the whites. We are scared of the whites,” he said.

He argued that making the rich, and hence whites, pay high water and electricity bills means they will be paying for the benefits they received during apartheid.

Malema said that the EFF would fight to ensure that the poor do not suffer further by paying for water and electricity.