EFF Zim blast UK over Malema visa denial

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe has described the United Kingdom's denial of a visa to South African opposition leader Julius Malema as a sign of his growing influence and status as a key power broker in Africa politics.

British authorities this week denied the firebrand opposition leader visa to London where he was set to attend the Cambridge Conference this weekend.

Malema was invited by the Africa Society of Cambridge University to speak at its 11th Annual Cambridge African Together Conference.

 According to a post on his X, Malema was already at the OR Tambo International Airport when he received the visa denial letter.
 
"The denial of Commander-In-Chief Julius Malema a visa to the UK scheduled to attend a Cambridge conference this weekend is a confirmation that indeed the EFF and Malema is not only a president in South Africa but the entire African continent.  We are aware that the principle of wealth redistribution and economic justice which Malema and other EFFs across Africa are championing has rattled the feathers of some western countries," said Innocent Ndibali, the leader of EFF Zimbabwe.

Ndibali said the EFF family will continue to forge ahead with its agenda of one borderless Africa regardless of challenges or resistance the ideal may face.

"As the EFF family, we will continue to forge ahead with our agenda of one borderless Africa, regardless of the challenges or resistance this ideal may face,"

"We believe in a united continent where artificial colonial borders no longer divide our people. Our struggle is for the free movement of Africans for economic integration and for the restoration of our collective dignity. No amount of opposition will deter us from our vision. EFF is engulfing Africa," declared Ndibali.

Malema's party has also condemned the visa denial.

"This is nothing more than an expression of bureaucratic process being used to suppress political dissent and to ban the voices of the EFF from building global solidarity against western imperialism," said the party's spokesperson Sinawo Thambo.

The EFF is well aware that this is a reflection of the attitude of imperialism against the Commander-In-Chief and the EFF who has been a strong and critical voice against the UK for its role in the atrocities of colonialism, particularly the role of the British monarchy in the slave trade, its role in the sustaining of the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel and the continued resistance by Britain regarding the paying of reparations to victims of colonial conquest," added the party's spokesperson.