In this recent clip, South African revolutionary Julius Malema argued the United States suspending HIV/AIDS funding to South Africa was not because of misinformation about the so-called ‘white gnocide’ and discrimination against white settlers in South Africa. Instead, Malema said the US is acting on behalf of Israel, which the US has provided the most foreign aid to since World War II. In late December 2023, long-time Palestine ally South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of gnocide against the Palestinians.
Malema (@julius_s_malema on X, @julius.malema.sello on IG), founder and president of South Africa’s Pan-African political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (@effsouthafrica), backed up his claim by listing examples of the United States’ long history of strong arming countries that don’t obey the US and walk an alternative path to meet their people’s needs.
The US and other Western countries have bankrolled Israel’s military onslaught, which had k*lled as many as 186,000 as of early July 2024, according to the Lancet medical journal.
Following President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signing into law a land expropriation bill to address apartheid-era inequities that linger, the Trump administration took on the government of South Africa. White settlers hold over 70 per cent of the country’s agricultural land, but they make up less than 8 per cent of South Africa’s population. Aside from suspending HIV/AIDS funding, the US offered refugee status to South Africa’s white settlers, and South Africa-born Tesla CEO and Trump advisor Elon Musk called Malema an ‘international criminal.’
Video credit: @ParliamentofRSA (X)
Sources
https://dirco.gov.za/south-africa-delivers-evidence-of-israel-genocide-to-icj/
https://nacla.org/sanctions-cuba
https://pepfarwatch.org/pepfar-funding-freeze/
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf