Malema blasted President Cyril Ramaphosa for failing to uphold a Constitutional Court ruling that deemed the chant not hate speech.  

Speaking during his party’s by-election campaign in Koppies, Free State province, over the weekend, Malema accused Ramaphosa of misrepresenting SA’s history during his recent meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the Oval Office.

He claimed that Ramaphosa’s failure to defend the song as part of the African National Congress heritage exposed his lack of belief in the country’s liberation struggle.  

“He could not defend the song as a struggle song, and he could not explain that it doesn’t, in any way, refer to the literal killing of white people,” Malema said.

“It was directed at the supremacist system of oppression in SA. He failed to do that because he never believed in the struggle.”  

Malema argued that Ramaphosa, by not challenging Trump’s call for his arrest, had effectively undermined the authority of SA’s highest court.

“He threw the Constitutional Court under the bus. The President should have stated clearly that the highest court had ruled on the matter and that even if he wanted to, he has no power to arrest me, there is a rule of law in this country that must be followed,” he stated.  

--SABC/ChannelAfrica--