Julius Malema, the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the EFF, has called on young people to have as many as ten children, saying that the state will pay for their education and to feed them.
Malema was on the campaign trail in Emalahleni (Witbank) in Mpumalanga, ahead of next month’s local government elections.
Malema said that people mustn’t be ‘lazy’ to have children and that there was enough money in South Africa to pay for them.
‘Just last year they blew R500bn in six months so no-one must come and ask those things of where is the money going to come from,’ Malema was quoted as saying.
At the hustings he also said: ‘EFF is going to give them free education from grade one to grade 12, is going to give them free food, when they pass matric properly it is going to give them free university education.’
In 2016 Malema had also called on black people to have more children. He claimed that white people did not want this so that whites could one day outnumber black people in South Africa.
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