The Star Early Edition

Juju’s claims about Indians racist

- Farouk Saloojee

WHY WOULD EFF leader Julius Malema highlight job issues by publicly slating Indians, saying that are ill treating workers, when Indian make up only 2% of the South African population?

If a worker is unhappy, it’s their democratic right to open a file at the Labour Department against an employer.

Did Malema or his party investigat­e employers of other races, including among the middle class, and those in townships and villages?

There hasn’t even been one case reported about it in KwaZulu-Natal papers.

If the EFF wants the “domestic” vote it would be better to use anything but these racist and cheap shots at degrading Indians, who have a high and fantastic record of fighting for the Struggle in South Africa.

Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Ahmed Kathrada, Yusuf Dadoo, Ahmed Timol, Babla Saloojee, the Pahads, the Naickers, The Transvaal and Natal Indian Congress and so on have played prominent roles in the Struggle. Indians also suffered tremendous­ly under the Group Areas Act in the 1970s.

This fault-finding was unfair and it’s unacceptab­le to tar an entire nation with the same brush.

The fault-finding was unfair and unacceptab­le

Rustenburg

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