For two long hours, Malema's supporters had been whipped into a fervor with revolutionary slogans, thumping music, and warm-up speeches at a packed stadium in the township of Alexandra in Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG - Like any crowd-puller, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema knows how to build excitement: keep your audiences waiting, then tell them what they want to hear.
"He is the only one to feel our pain. He is the only one to help the people," said Steven Chauke, 58, a local man who has been unemployed for 16 years. Such issues allowed Malema, who was once an ANC youth leader, to form his own party in 2013 and build it within a few years into a growing force within South African politics.
"We must expropriate land without compensation and give it to the people of Alexandra to build their own houses. Let's share the wealth of South Africa," Malema told the rally."Let us build a solid foundation for an African child so that an African child will grow up not being scared of a white counterpart," he said, touching on the incendiary topic of race relations in South Africa.
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