A once promising country has become a failed state. The leader of South Africa’s fourth-biggest political party is calling for white genocide.

After being reelected president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (eff), Julius Malema stated dogmatically that reversing colonialism requires violence.

“The eff exists in a country indoctrinated to believe that the contradictions between the African black majority and the white-capitalist ruling class can be resolved peacefully,” Malema told supporters at a rally on Dec. 15, 2024. “This belief is simply untrue, and we must explain this truth to our people. When the South African Human Rights Commission takes us to court for saying that, ultimately, our revolution will require us to kill, we must be prepared to contextualize what we mean. … Colonialism is institutional and structural violence, and reversing it requires violence.”

The 43-year-old politician then tried to insulate himself from legal repercussions by explaining that he meant killing the ideology of white supremacy. Few believe him. He has refused to stop singing racist songs like “Awuleth’ Umshini Wami” (“Bring My Machine Gun”) and “Dubul’ ibhulu” (“Kill the Boer”). These songs were formerly sung by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress. Millions hear these words and interpret them as a violent call to arms.

The eff is a Communist and black nationalist party calling for the nationalization of banks, state ownership of all mineral resources, and the confiscation of white land without compensation.

The South African government estimates that whites own 72 percent of the nation’s farmland. Many blacks want to kick off a Bolshevik-style revolution where they take the land from those who legally own it. Ten percent of voters see Malema as a freedom fighter against a more moderate Ramaphosa administration and are enraged that the African National Congress has not moved to confiscate land.

This means that South Africa could be entering the second phase of a two-phase revolution.

In 2011, British historian Stephen Ellis published a paper proving that former South African President Nelson Mandela was a member of the South African Communist Party. He also contended that Mandela’s affiliation with the Communist Party shaped the African National Congress in ways that endure to this day. He noted how the African National Congress claims to be in the first stage of a two-phase revolution. This line of reasoning, which is rooted in Soviet thinking, postulates that South Africa must pass through a stage of “bourgeois democracy” before becoming a Communist state.

South Africa’s current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, may want to stay in phase one a while longer, but Malema is ready for phase two. In fact, South African farmer and citizen journalist @twatterbaas reports there were 13,930 farm attacks in South Africa from 1999 to 2022. Many argue South Africa is already in a Bolshevik-style revolution. These farm attacks are not motivated by theft. They involve brutal torture techniques that only make sense if this is a terror campaign designed to scare farmers into surrendering their land.

The Trumpet has been following this trend for decades. While many hailed Nelson Mandela’s victory in the 1994 election as the beginning of a new golden age, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned, “South Africa is the first of the Anglo-Saxon nations to give away its God-given birthright.”

Like the pilgrims who settled America, the Afrikaners compared themselves to the children of Israel. Some might have even understood that they were literal descendants of Israel. In 1590, the French Huguenot magistrate M. le Loyer described an Israelite genealogy for the British people in The Ten Lost Tribes. In 1700, Dutch historian Mattheus Smallegange outlined an Israelite genealogy for the Frisian and Dutch people in The New Chronicles of Zeeland. So some people knew the Afrikaners’ prophetic identity even before Herbert W. Armstrong wrote The United States and Britain in Prophecy (free upon request).

A prophecy in Ezekiel describes a time of violence soon to afflict America, Britain and South Africa. “Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses …” (Ezekiel 7:23-24).

The word “heathen” is not necessarily an insult. It comes from the Hebrew word gowy and merely means non-Israelite. But the “worst of the heathen” refers to the type of non-Israelites who pledge to kill men, women and children. This prophecy says so many bloody crimes will occur that they will be like links in a chain—one after another. It also describes the seizure of people’s homes.

The Israelite people have a 4,000-year history with God, yet they have turned away from God’s laws and embraced wrong ideologies like communism. Therefore, God says, “I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord” (verse 27).

In many ways, South Africa is like a canary in the coal mine. It is a glimpse into the future of America and Britain if these nations continue on their current path—a path of lawlessness that embraces secularism and despises their Christian tradition. Malema’s speech should be a wake-up call.

To learn more, read “A Warning From South Africa.”