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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Johannesburg \u2013 EFF leader Julius Malema has reiterated the party\u2019s controversial call for the opening up of borders to foreign nationals from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the party\u2019s briefing on Thursday, Malema slammed the government for the massive human and traffic congestion at the country\u2019s borders, which escalated as immigrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other countries were being processed, screened or tested for Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The party has been calling on the government to allow the immigrants to enter the country, but South Africa has since closed the borders until next month as part of new regulations aimed at combating escalating infections.<\/p>\n

Now when South Africa closes its borders, is “Self Hate” ????#VoetsekEFF #EFFPresser pic.twitter.com\/CnJYXsrOkw<\/p>\n

In what could be read as a call for the immigrants to jump the border illegally, Malema called on foreign nationals to find \u201ccreative\u201d means of entering the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the gates are not going to be open for SADC (Southern African Development Community), fellow SADC people, please, find a creative way. This is your home. Your families are here. There is no way anyone is going to close you out here,\u201d Malema said.<\/p>\n

EFF has an agenda that won’t benefit South Africans.#VoetsekEFF pic.twitter.com\/0DNkIVkVuG<\/p>\n

He said the closure of borders while airports were allowed to welcome international visitors was also misguided.<\/p>\n

Malema said the closure of the Lesotho border was irrational as there was no fence between it and SA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you close the border or not, the Lesotho people are going to come into SA and they are going to come through an unregulated process without being tested and without being processed because fools have closed the gate where there is no fence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

They HATE South Africans and love everything that seeks to benefits foreigners #VoetsekEFF pic.twitter.com\/VNjY2xSVUN<\/p>\n

Malema accused the government of behaving in a manner \u201cthat pleases whiteness and Europeans\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe disease did not come through Zimbabwe or Lesotho. It came from Italy. It is white people who brought the disease here and we said to the government, \u2018quarantine these people and isolate them\u2019. Because they were white, they did not isolate them,\u201d Malema said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it appears that the EFF\u2019s sentiments have sparked a debate on social media, with some users on Twitter through the #VoetsekEFF posting that Malema and his party were not sympathetic to the plight faced by South Africans, adding that Malema was being opportunistic by calling for the borders to open.<\/p>\n

Political Bureau<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. Johannesburg \u2013 EFF leader Julius Malema has reiterated the party\u2019s controversial call for the opening up of borders to foreign nationals from neighbouring countries. 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