AfriForum delivers Malema dossier to senior White House officials and discusses other threats to human rights in South Africa

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today visited the White House to meet with senior officials within the Trump Administration as part of a follow-up liaison visit to the United States, alongside Solidarity. Werner Human, member of AfriForum’s board, handed the Malema dossier, that AfriForum published earlier this month, to these officials. This comprehensive dossier provides the foundation for international consequences, such as targeted sanctions, for EFF leader Julius Malema by documenting his history of incitement to violence, alleged involvement in corruption, and his support for terrorist groups.

Bringing Malema’s extremism to the attention of the Trump administration is one part of a larger international campaign to ensure Malema faces consequences for his incitement of violence and other transgressions that he is currently getting away with in South Africa. Alongside this campaign, AfriForum also continues to inform influential international contacts about the threat of expropriation without compensation in South Africa, as well as the scourge of farm attacks and murders. These topics where discussed during AfriForum’s White House meeting as well.

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom rejected Malema’s visa application on the grounds of his extremist rhetoric, such as refusing to rule out that he will never call for the slaughtering of white people. AfriForum has also been encouraged to see a recent US State Department report cast a spotlight on farm murders and the “Kill the Boer” chant. The report, furthermore, stated that in recent years the EFF encouraged attacks on Afrikaner farmers, reviving the use of the song “Kill the Boer” at its rallies and otherwise inciting violence.

According to Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, the organisation will continue its years-long mission to not only make Julius Malema face justice at home in South Africa, but also to expose him to the world so that he can face consequences internationally as well.

“The Trump administration has already demonstrated that it finds Julius Malema’s hateful, dangerous rhetoric and violent chants such as ‘Kill the Boer’ very concerning. One of its demands to the South African government, in order to normalise relations, has been to condemn the ‘Kill the Boer,’ chant, which the South African government has unfortunately refused to do up until this point. AfriForum will ensure that such pressure grows,” Van Zyl concludes.