*Tells African Leaders To Stop The Debt Trap, Process Resources Locally
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The President of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, has called on African leaders to dismantle colonial boundaries and pursue full continental integration under a single presidency, parliament, currency, and military command.
Malema made the call on Sunday while delivering a keynote address at the opening of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference in Enugu, where he spoke to thousands of lawyers, dignitaries, and policy influencers.
“We demand one Africa. We demand a borderless Africa. We demand an Africa with one president, one currency, one military command, with one parliament,” Malema declared, drawing loud applause from the audience.
He argued that a unified Africa would wield far greater global influence, stressing that the continent’s resources diamonds, oil, gas, platinum, coal, and agricultural potential should be processed locally rather than exported cheaply and re-imported as finished goods.
Malema warned against Africa’s increasing dependence on loans from international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), describing them as “debt traps” that mortgage the continent’s future.
“The debt trap of Africa to our foreign colonisers must be stopped. Our leaders commit future generations to loans, yet they will not be there when the colonisers come to collect,” he said.
He revealed that the South African parliament is considering an amendment bill sponsored by his party to regulate foreign borrowing and subject such loans to parliamentary scrutiny.
Rejecting narratives that describe Africa as a “dark continent,” Malema said the continent is rich in human and natural capital but remains trapped in neo-colonial arrangements that perpetuate underdevelopment.
“We are a shining nation. Africans must refuse to be subjects of others. We must unite against the forces that seek to exploit us and ensure that no single corner of Africa witnesses Africans killing each other,” he said.
Malema described xenophobia as a “betrayal of African unity,” insisting that Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Congolese, and other Africans are not to blame for South Africa’s unemployment crisis. Instead, he blamed systemic inequality and multinational corporations that continue to control resources.
The EFF leader praised Nigeria for its support during South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and called for deeper collaboration between the two nations.
“Combined, we possess the minerals that power modern technology, the energy resources that fuel global industry, and the human capital to build a self-sufficient continent,” Malema said.
He proposed joint industrialisation, cross-border business integration, and freer movement of people, arguing that Nigerians and South Africans should work across the continent not as foreigners but as Africans contributing to a shared destiny.
Malema closed his speech with a rallying call for African self-determination, rejecting reliance on external powers.
“Our salvation will not come from Washington, London, Brussels, or Beijing. It lies here — in Lagos and Johannesburg, in Abuja and Pretoria, in the hands of Africans who refuse to be divided,” he said.
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