Women are better leaders than men‚ EFF leader Julius Malema
said on Wednesday at the party’s memorial service for Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela.
“There is no woman who has started a World War One [or a]
World War Two. There is no woman who has ever sent people to go and bomb other
nations‚ because he wants oil or minerals from that. Always the unreasonable
ones: Men. George Bush: Man. Donald Trump: Man.”
Malema addressed supporters in Brandfort‚ a Free State town
where Madikizela-Mandela spent several years under apartheid-era banishment
orders. The EFF chose the location to draw attention to the home in which
Madikizela-Mandela stayed during her time in Brandfort. The provincial
government has been criticised for failing to deliver on plans to turn the home
into a museum.
Malema told the EFF leadership to let women flourish or
risk repeating the “sins of the ANC”.
“Why is there no one reminding us here of what (former
defence minister) Joe Modise did in the camps? What (former SACP leader) Chris
Hani did in the camps? What O.R. Tambo did in the camps?”
Malema said Madikizela-Mandela’s detractors criticised her
past because she was a woman doing what was “supposed to be done by a man”.
“If it was a man that was alleged to have killed Stompie
[Seipei]‚ who was an impimpi (police informer or spy)‚ that man would have been
saluted and be given all titles: Commissar‚ commander‚ the fearless one.”
Madikizela-Mandela was convicted in 1991 of kidnapping and
being an accessory in the assault of Seipei. Her six-year jail sentence was
reduced to a fine and a suspended two-year sentence on appeal.
Thousands flocked to Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Wednesday
to pay tribute to Madikizela-Mandela. She died last Monday at the age of 81 at
the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.
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