Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says South Africa’s youth have no reason to support the Government of National Unity – given the country’s unemployment rate.

The EFF leader further accused the GNU of preserving poverty among black people.

Malema was addressing an EFF rally in Sharpeville, Gauteng where the party commemorated Human Rights Day at Dlomo Dam.

“The youth of South Africa has no reason, non whatsoever to support the GNU. The GNU is a government of cowards who want to perpetuate the poverty of black people.

Black people especially black women are the ones suffering under GNU. The unemployment is too high in South Africa to a level of 47%.”

EFF held a Sharpeville Massacre Commemoration at Dlomo Dam, in Sharpeville in the Vaal, to honour the victims of 1960 who stood against the pass laws and colonial rule.

He says the human rights of South Africans have not changed even today. He has emphasised that it was Nelson’s Mandela’s dream that South Africa should be equal.

“Our people stood courageously against injustice, demanding an end to the Pass Law that restricted their movement in their own land. But instead of being met with dialogue, they were met with bullets. Sharpeville was not just massacre, it was a declaration of war by the apartheid regime against the black majority. It was a moment that exposed the true brutality of white minority rule to the entire world,” says Malema.