JULIUS MALEMA  RESPONDS TO DONALD TRUMP AND ELON MUSK @KASIBCNEWS

SPEAKING NOTES ON DECISION BY USA TO CUT FOREIGN AID TO SOUTH AFRICA AND MEDDLE IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

1. House Chairperson, on the 20th of September 2001, former President of the United States of America (USA), George Bush, declared what became known as the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, stating that, and I quote, “It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” 

2. What followed was a massive disinformation campaign to justify the 2003 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan under the pretext of locating and destroying Weapons of Mass Destruction. Decades later, no such weapons were ever found. 

3. This invasion was about minerals and oil reserves, not weapons of mass destruction. Iraq and Afghanistan have never recovered. 

4. Cuba, Libya, Venezuela, and Chile are examples of nations that have suffered from US interventions because of their socialist policies, justified by false intelligence to advance imperialism. 

5. Cuba has endured decades of sanctions for nationalisation of strategic sectors of the economy, supporting African liberation and socialism, while Libya was destroyed because Gaddafi rejected US dominance. 

6. We raise these historical facts because history must guide us in everything we do.

 When Donald Trump declares that “bad things are happening in South Africa” without evidence, we must not assume that the USA is misinformed. Instead, we must question the real intentions behind such statements. 

7. After Trump’s remarks, the US froze foreign aid globally under the pretext of assessing alignment with his policy outlook.

For South Africa, this meant PEPFAR funding for our HIV/AIDS response was under threat. 

On 26 February 2025, the freeze became permanent, terminating funding indefinitely.

8. The US aggression towards South Africa is nothing more than Israel’s revenge for our moral stance in support of Palestine.

 Meanwhile, some of us have been labeled international criminals—a designation used before the West assassinates those who oppose its agenda. 

9. Before invading nations, the US always fabricates human rights violations to justify intervention. Today, the same tactics are being used against South Africa. 

10. The growing calls by right-wing groups for foreign funding to establish independent states—and to be armed by foreign interests—must be recognized as part of a broader plan. 

This is the early stage of economic isolation, leading ultimately to military intervention. 

11. Next, AGOA will be terminated, escalating tensions between the USA and South Africa. 

12. Our government must dismiss opportunistic Afrikaner racist groups exploiting US imperialism to fund their racist fantasies of an independent state. That will never happen. 

We will expropriate land without compensation – whether they like it or not, If they object, they can seek refuge in America. 

13. House Chairperson, Trump and the USA are not demonstrating strength. The USA is merely displaying an advanced stage of capitalism: Imperialism. 

14. Trump engages in transactional and manipulative relationships with the world like it is his backyard. The hostility towards South Africa does not come from fraudulent Boers spreading disinformation but from America’s imperialist agenda.  

15. The USA, home to the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies — agencies that fabricated evidence to justify the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and orchestrated the assassinations of Muammar Gaddafi, Patrice Lumumba, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X—cannot now claim to be victims of disinformation from a minor racist group based in Orania. 

16. The USA has openly embraced a Golden Age of Imperialism, extending its power through threats and the provision or termination of foreign aid, 

17. In response our government foolishly seeks to explain our policies to a maniacal President, as if the USA were a victim of misinformation. 

18. The USA knows exactly what it is doing and why it is doing it. 

19. At a Goldman Sachs event on the 27th of February 2025, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated, “Trump got the wrong end of the stick on the country’s land policies.” I completely reject this notion. 

20. The USA, home to Elon Musk’s X platform, Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, Facebook, Google, Tesla, Starlink, and Silicon Valley—the global hub of data collection—cannot claim to be misinformed. 

They are the greatest perpetrators of disinformation. The USA is the greatest perpetrator of disinformation. It is now using its own falsehoods as justification to attack South Africa. 

21. This government refuses to acknowledge the real issue: we are being punished for supporting Palestine against Apartheid Israel—nothing else. 

22. The USA does not believe there is a white genocide or land grabs in South Africa. These lies are useful tools to justify economic aggression and seek to weaken our moral authority to condemn Israel’s genocide. 

23. Foreign aid has always been a tool of Western imperialism and control. It must end with South Africa. 

24. We must expand our trade and strengthen relationships with China, India, Russia, Brazil, and Singapore while emphasizing African unity. 

25. The USA is on a fool’s mission to extort the world into submission and as result will become increasingly isolated. 

26. Our sovereignty, security, and economic prosperity depend on rejecting the American Golden Age —a project of imperialism. 

The world must move forward without the USA if true progress is to be achieved. 

I thank you.