{"id":48925,"date":"2026-02-01T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=48925"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:05:06","slug":"julius-malema-says-white-people-must-pay-for-water-and-electricity-for-poor-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/02\/01\/julius-malema-says-white-people-must-pay-for-water-and-electricity-for-poor-south-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Malema says white people must pay for water and electricity for poor South Africans \u2013 Newsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n                <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n                            <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Julius-Malema-says-white-people-must-pay-for-water-and.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"embed-responsive-item wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Julius-Malema-says-white-people-must-pay-for-water-and.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Julius-Malema-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Julius-Malema-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Julius-Malema-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/>                        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-xl-10 mx-auto\">\n<p>Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says that rich people, who are the whites, must pay for services for poor South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Malema made these comments during a speech at the EFF\u2019s second plenum at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg.<\/p>\n<p>He likened paying for water and electricity to paying for school fees, explaining that poor people have free schooling for their children.<\/p>\n<p>He said paying monthly for water and electricity is unfeasible for poor people and that they should be subsidised by rich white people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rich must pay. We must charge them more to subsidise those who cannot pay in the townships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rich must pay for the poor, because the rich have stolen from the poor. It is time to pay back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rich are the whites. The rich are the politicians and businessmen who have left us in poverty in the townships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malema said South Africa should be a country where the rich fight for the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a country where we are scared of the rich. The rich means the whites. We are scared of the whites,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that making the rich, and hence whites, pay high water and electricity bills means they will be paying for the benefits they received during apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Malema said that the EFF would fight to ensure that the poor do not suffer further by paying for water and electricity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center border p-3 bg-light mt-4 rounded\">You have read 1 out of 5 free articles. Log in or register for unlimited access.<\/div>\n<p>                        <!-- Share Data Setup for JavaScript --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Julius #Malema #white #people #pay #water #electricity #poor #South #Africans #Newsday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says that rich people, who are the whites, must pay for services for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48927,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions\/48927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}