Ringo Madlingozi (left) with the EFF's top 3 in June, 2018.
Legendary South African musician Ringo Madlingozi has expressed his support for the red berets’ commander-in-chief Julius Malema after saying Indians are racist.
During Youth Day celebrations in Klerksdorp, North West, at the weekend, Malema said most South African Indian people, as well as coloured people, were racist towards black South Africans.
“We were not all oppressed the same. Indians had all sorts of resources Africans didn’t have, coloureds as well. The majority of Indians are racist. I’m not saying all, I’m saying majority,” Malema said at the celebrations.
Expressing solidarity with Malema, Madlingozi said growing up in Cape Town had exposed him to the reality of Indian, coloured and white people being racist towards his father.
Madlingozi further tweeted that newspaper editorials were dampening the truths Malema had uttered at the weekend by referring to the comments as “rhetoric”.
Another musician who sided with Malema, who has been called out by a number of media commentators for the comments, is singer Simphiwe Dana.
Tweeting earlier this morning, Dana urged South Africans to not take the cue from media commentary and opinion makers, but rather seek to be independent thinkers.
Dana said the frenzy around Malema’s comments reminded her of that famous interaction she had had with Western Cape Premier Helen Zille about racism in that province.
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