Julius Malema has confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa over his assembly with Elon Musk amid heightened stress between South Africa and the United States.
Ramaphosa had been answering Questions for Oral Reply within the National Assembly in Parliament on Tuesday and the EFF chief seized the chance to voice his criticisms of the assembly.
Malema slams Musk’s views on South Africa as ‘racist’
Malema addressed Ramaphosa in the course of the meeting and questioned the reasoning behind his determination to satisfy with Elon Musk.
“This is as a result of you having met Elon Musk during the UN General Assembly and knowing very well the views of Elon Musk about South Africa: Racist, white supremacist views about South Africa which led to you meeting him because you thought you were going to clarify those issues,” Malema stated.
Malema accused Musk of being an unrepentant racist who went on to proceed voicing detrimental feedback in regards to the nation, regardless of assembly with Ramaphosa.
“Unrepentant racist became emboldened and then made more bad remarks about South Africa, even after meeting you physically. You still saw a need to go outside the diplomatic channels and make a contact with an individual, not using diplomatic relations or mechanisms within which we solve diplomatic disputes as South Africa.” Malema continued.
Malema doubled down on his criticism by accusing Ramaphosa of undermining diplomatic channels and the departments tasked with upholding worldwide relationships.
“Don’t you think you individually emboldened white people to undermine us? And you have single-handedly destroyed the diplomatic relationships of South Africa with other countries?” Malema requested.
Ramaphosa’s stance on assembly with Musk
Interestingly, Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya had earlier defended the decision to satisfy with Musk.
“The president is the head of state, and the president will always do whatever it takes to protect and promote the interests of this country. Elon owns the X platform, Elon has been part of peddling lies about our country, Elon is quite influential. As we all know, in the Trump administration, he is part of the inner circle. Therefore, the president will not have an issue to engage with Elon,” Magwenya stated
Earlier, US President Donald Trump had positioned restrictions on monetary help to South Africa and introduced that the US could be engaged on a plan to welcome Afrikaners into the country as refugees in response to allegations of a racially charged genocide in South Africa.
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