Malema throws Zimbabweans under the bus
EFF leader Julius Malema
….EFF to flash out foreign employees from hospitality industry
The leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, Julius Malema has said the party’s leadership will launch a fact-finding mission to ascertain how many locals are employed in the hospitality industry emphasising that the laws say locals have to be prioritised. He said:
We want locals to be prioritized for employment. We must visit hospitality venues and ask them how many South Africans they are hiring.
This comes amid concerns that local businesses are hiring foreigners who provide cheap labour and are also hardworking at the expense of locals.
His remarks might further fuel tensions between locals and foreigners. Malema has been the lonely powerful voice fighting in the corner of black foreigners and his sudden change of heart will make life more difficult for Zimbabweans.
There have been xenophobic attacks targeted at Africans residing and working in South Africa as locals expressed anger over the employment of foreign nationals.
Malema has in the past castigated the attacks saying chasing foreigners away will result in the collapse of the economy adding that Africans need to be united as they are one people.
Malema might have been compelled to change by xenophobic voters who ditched him to embrace Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA’s xenophobic manifesto in the just ended local government elections.
Zimbabwe Refugees Forum Chairman Tawanda Wamanava lamented Malema ‘sudden hardening of heart towards foreigners.
“Malema was our only Messiah and we are not left vulnerable now that he has joined other South Africans in chasing us,” said Wamanava.
Adds Wamanava: “As a politician he needs votes, so his hand was forced by voters.”
–Pindula News
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