EFF hits back at AfriForum over Malema’s crimen injuria prosecution
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is not fazed by AfriForum’s announcement that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will pursue a charge of crimen injuria against the President and Commander-in-Chief of the EFF, Julius Malema. The pursuit of this by the NPA at the behest of the racist reincarnation of the Boeremag in the form of AfriForum, is part of a vindictive ideological agenda by right-wingers, who cannot bear the influence that the EFF and its leader continue to hold in various spheres of government and society.
The background of this case stems from October 2024 when the seven-year-old “CweCwe” rape matter was reported to have occurred at her school. As part of that investigation, the principal of the school where she was a learner refused to voluntarily provide his DNA sample as requested by the South African Police Service (SAPS) in their child rape investigation. The school principal was one of three people who SAPS requested to voluntarily provide their DNA sample as a process of elimination in its child rape investigation. The school principal was the only one who refused to cooperate with the SAPS and instead, accepted the services of the white supremacist group, AfriForum, who went on its usual mission to protect the ‘rights’ of a white man over the human rights of an African child.
As a result, President Malema spoke as a political leader responding, in real time, to a case that had already generated public outrage, noting this refusal by the principal. His remarks were a political statement of outrage on behalf of a child and a grieving family, not a legal pronouncement, and they must be understood in that context, as a political statement at a political event in defence of an unspeakable crime against a child.
We do so unapologetically and AfriForum, even with the might of Donald Trump, will not silence us. AfriForum’s relentless political prosecution against the President of the EFF has reached an unprecedented low in weaponising the justice system in a child rape investigation by unseeing the rights of a 7-year old African girl child for the ‘rights’ of an adult white man who is a school principal. This is precisely the pattern the EFF has highlighted as the white supremacist self-serving nature of AfriForum.
The EFF lodged a complaint with the SAHRC on the 19th of June 2025 against AfriForum and their spokesperson Barry Bateman for the violation of CweCwe’s human rights under complaint number HO25260015, following their public statements that CweCwe “was not raped”.