I never said Mandela was a sell-out: Malema explains,EFF leader Julius Malema says he does not believe that the late former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, however, he stands by the fact that he made compromises. Malema was explaining the statements which he made while addressing the Oxford Union in the United Kingdom. “We must say a collective of the ANC has compromised the Freedom Charter. You (the media) chose to say I said Mandela sold out,” he told reporters in Johannesburg yesterday.

Malema said everything he said about Mandela was true and he was not willing to sugarcoat anything. “I don’t belong to a religion called Mandela. “President Mandela is a human being like all of us. He’s got his own shortcomings. His legacy and his contribution to the struggle will be a permanent subject for critique in South African politics . . . if you don’t want to vote for me because I’m critiquing Mandela then you want to live a lie.

“The deviation from the Freedom Charter was the beginning of the selling out of the revolution. But why did Nelson Mandela sell out the Freedom Charter? When Mandela returned from prison he got separated with Winnie Mandela and went to stay in a house of the rich white men . . . he was looked after by the Oppenheimers,” he said.
“Nelson Mandela used to attend the club meetings of those white men who owned the South African economy at the time.”

Malema said these white men had access to Mandela 24 hours a day and they told him that “what he represents would not be achieved”.

“That’s when he turned against himself,”

“I’m not going to be blackmailed, because Mandela is no more (people are saying) you can’t speak about him like that. We speak about many, many people who sold out the revolution in the past, in South Africa and internationally.

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