Commentary
Over the past few weeks, England’s Daily Mail has published several articles about the growing political unrest in South Africa and the rise of Julius Malema, head of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), an expressly “Marxist-Leninist” party calling for the “seizure of private property without compensation” and nationalization of the country’s gold mines, banking institutions, and other industries. Mr. Malema has declared his plans to “destroy South African capitalism” and turn the country into Cuba, which he describes as a “successful socialist state.”
