Powerful ruling party politician calls South African mine owners thieves

A new local documentary to be screened in cinemas next week and engineered to make a case for the nationalisation of the mining industry called Mining for Change: A Story of South African Mining, presents studio footage of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, likening stage.mining.company owners to car thieves.

The Pretoria News quotes from the documentary:

“I am prepared to share that (mining rights) with you, it doesn’t matter whether you are in South Africa. You bring your machines and all the necessary equipment and extract the mineral, which I own. I am not coming there as a person who is just bringing a jacket. I am coming with something, precious minerals, and you are bringing equipment.”