Malema Clarifies That He Never Called For Violence

Economic Freedom Fighters EFF leader Julius Malema, has come out to clarify that he never called for violence, during his delivery of the partys political report, at the elective conference currently under way in Nasrec, south of Johannesburg.

Malemas utterances on violence being inevitable to change the status quo sparked uproar, but Malema said during a media briefing, that his quotation of the Marxist political philosopher Frantz Fanon, was misunderstood.

You want to speak about violence, and you attribute that to me, when I am in the speech, quoting what Frantz Fanon says on violence- that our conditions are a product of a violent colonial conquest, and those who want to hold to the benefits of that conquest- are not going to give over those things, without putting up a violence and therefore violence is inevitable. So, when you call for the expropriation of land without compensation, its violence against those who have the land that they got, that was ill-gotten.

Meanwhile, Malema has refused to explain the absence of the partys senior official and former spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi , at the partys third- national peoples assembly, currently under way at Nasrec, south of Johannesburg.

Theres been questions around Ndlozis status in the party, as nominations for the partys top officials get under way this afternoon at the elective conference.