{"id":142574,"date":"2024-01-24T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T02:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/political-freedom-is-meaningless-without-economic-freedom-julius-malema\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T02:30:15","slug":"political-freedom-is-meaningless-without-economic-freedom-julius-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/political-freedom-is-meaningless-without-economic-freedom-julius-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"Political freedom is meaningless without economic freedom &#8211; Julius Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leader and founder of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema says voting without receiving the benefits thereof is meaningless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, while citizens enjoy the right to vote for any candidate of their choice, there ought to be tangible benefits associated with this right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Malema asserts that the current system is failing to deliver the benefits associated with voting. He was speaking at an event organised by Arise Ghana on the theme, &#8216;A Day of Dialogue With Julius Malema.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Julius-Malema-speech-24-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032448952 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou must vote and when you arrive at home, you must find bread, you must find free education, you must find quality public health, and you must find reliable electricity and not what we experienced earlier on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KkC61gSg5gA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dialogue with Julius Malema: Those stealing from the public purse are stealing from the future\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KkC61gSg5gA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Africans should take control of their own destiny, without being afraid of external influences or colonizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Julius-Malema-speech-6-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032448932 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra, he stated that Africans must be truthful and \u201ccall a spade a spade, which is the only way an African will be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis continent is one. They may think they divided it. I can guarantee you now, like we saw when Ghana got liberated and South Africa said one day, it will happen, it came many years after but eventually, it came.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe unity of this continent is going to come and when we call on each other, to come into each other\u2019s country, we must embrace that with ease. \u201c<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader and founder of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema says voting without receiving the benefits thereof is meaningless. According to him, while citizens enjoy the right to vote for any candidate of their choice, there ought to be tangible benefits associated with this right. Mr Malema asserts that the current system is failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Political freedom is meaningless without economic freedom - Julius Malema - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/political-freedom-is-meaningless-without-economic-freedom-julius-malema\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Political freedom is meaningless without economic freedom - Julius Malema - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leader and founder of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema says voting without receiving the benefits thereof is meaningless. 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