SA's Malema calls for 'one binding African legislature'

EFF leader Julius Malema has called for ‘one binding legislature’ for all African countries to ensure that they complied with anti-corruption programmes. The politician is attending the fifth Pan-African Parliament in Kigali. He expressed his support for a judicial body that would act against corruption in Africa ‘because that would send the message that corruption doesn’t pay’. He added that a continental judicial body would hold leaders accountable. ‘Many corrupt individuals on the continent go unpunished and, as a result, people think that corruption pays,’ he said. Although Malema was generally supportive of free trade agreements in Africa, he said it was understandable that countries would be wary of implementing such reforms. A report on The Citizen site notes that he pointed to the fact that some countries might attempt to abuse such freedom to fraudulently market products from outside Africa, particularly from China. He has also called for the continent to develop a shared language: ‘We must in generations to come have a language that unites Africans. Like Swahili. If Swahili can be developed and turned into a continental language, then we do away with English. Because that’s what colonisers did … they divided us, made sure that we don’t have a common language to communicate among ourselves, and then we use their language to communicate so that they can hear everything we say.’

Full report in The Citizen