The University of the Free State (UFS) will be transformed after the elections, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Friday.
”We will start with the [UFS] council, where Afrikaners are sitting for the last 20 years,” Malema told about two hundred cheering students at the university.
Malema said the UFS was still run by white Afrikaners for the ”chosen few”.
”We still have people who use apartheid tactics to run this institution.”
Malema also criticised the UFS’s policy for campus residences, which allows for a 30% black or white group in a hostel, depending on the majority.
He said it could not be allowed that people stay on campus because of a ”percentage”, because it legalises racism.
Malema said the new minister of education, after the April 22 election, would be asked to demand the transformation and restructuring of the residence policy at the university.
”We cannot be threatened by the white minority, we have already beaten them [in 1994],” he said, adding that the ANC stood for all people in South Africa, ”black and white”.
Earlier, Malema also did a walk-about on campus at the Central University of Technology (CUT) in Bloemfontein.
Malema urged students to vote for the ANC in April because the party wanted a 75% majority to teach other political parties a lesson.
During the meeting, Malema accused Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille of being a racist, to the delight and laughter of the students.
He also made fun of the DA’s federal chairperson Joe Seremane.
He called United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa an ”apartheid general” with a ”one man show” and Cope was referred to as the ”Mickey Mouse” party which copies the ANC constantly.
Referring to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Malema said the ANC Youth League would take the IFP head on.
”We are not afraid of the IFP. We take them head on. We are the government, they are the opposition,” he said to cheers and laughter of the crowd. – Sapa