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of Anglo American, City Press reported yseterday.
Malema was speaking at a gala dinner in Nelspruit last Friday.
He said Anglo could do with the remaining 40 percent as it pleased.
Malema predicted that the nationalisation of mines would still happen in his lifetime.
“Share that delicious piece of cake. Don’t eat it all alone!” he said to loud applause. Malema said unemployment was the cause of recent political unrest, and nationalisation was the way to solve it.
The youth league did not advocate taking over all white businesses, it just wanted a fair share, he said.
“If we don’t do it (nationalisation), we’ll always stay poor. The Oppenheimers don’t need to worry because we only want 60 percent of Anglo American’s money,” he said. Malema said Anglo had agreed to give 51 percent of its mining interests to black people in Botswana and asked why the company did not want to do the same in South Africa. He accused the mining giant of thinking black people were idiots and of abusing the black population in South Africa. Malema said political freedom was useless without economic freedom.
“We’re now economic freedom fighters. The revolution started to get food. We don’t have to apologise, or be shy about this struggle.”
He urged a full hall at the Ehlanzeni District Municipality building to prevent the revolution from losing steam by having as many babies as possible.
“Having babies is a revolutionary thing. You must reproduce!”
Anglo American was not available for comment. – SAPA.