The president of the Financial Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, has blamed xenophobia on poverty, inequality, and authorities failure, describing it as a betrayal of African unity.

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Malema made the assertion on Sunday on the Nigeria Bar Affiliation, NBA Annual Common Convention in Enugu.

“Xenophobia is a betrayal of African unity. It’s a illness borne of poverty, inequality, and authorities failure. Its victims are our African brothers and sisters. Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Congolese, and Somalis should not the reason for South Africa’s unemployment disaster.

“The trigger lies within the untransformed dichotomy of South Africa, which stays within the arms of the white minority and multinational firms who proceed to take advantage of whereas refusing to industrialise. As an alternative, they divert anger from the actual enemy, and we should educate our those that unity, not division, is the answer to Africa’s disaster,” he stated.

The Pan-Africanist confused that South African corporations had made vital inroads in Nigeria by creating jobs and offering companies, whereas Nigerian companies and traders had equally expanded into South Africa.

In response to him, Nigerian music, movie, and literature proceed to affect South African tradition, simply as South African universities and industries present platforms for Nigerian skills.

Malema, who leads a communist political get together recognized for the crimson berets and navy-fashion outfits worn by its members, charged South African entrepreneurs to arrange in Lagos with out suspicion however with assist as companions in a shared future.

He emphasised that the financial power of Nigeria and South Africa might energy a brand new African industrial revolution.