Migrants not to blame for SA’s unemployment crisis, says Malema at SACP conference

EFF leader Julius Malema says African migrants are being unfairly blamed for South Africa’s unemployment, and failing public services.

EFF leader Julius Malema has labelled the ongoing anti-illegal immigration marches as “Afrophobia” targeting foreign nationals, saying poor African migrants are not responsible for South Africa’s unemployment crisis and service delivery problems.

“Poor Africans from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, or elsewhere on the continent are not responsible for unemployment, inequality, or collapsing public services,” Malema said.

He was speaking at the South African Communist Party’s (SACP) Conference of the Left in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on Friday.

The three-day conference aims to strengthen coordination, unity in action, political education, and organised struggle among leftist and working-class formations, according to the SACP.