The firebrand leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters Party Julius Malema took a swipe at Kenya proclaiming we are yet to actually gain independence owing to close ties with the USA.
Malema spoke during a press briefing where he was urging South Africa to withdraw from the Commonwealth, which he stated was presided by the colonizer.
In particular, Malema focused on the Judiciary in Kenya and Zimbabwe for having a white wig as part of their official dress code.
"Does it mean you can only think when you wear a wig that looks like the hair of white people? You're actually wearing white brains. The reason you think properly is because of that wig according to colonialism," he stated.
“Revolutionists allow that to continue in Zimbabwe, they allow that to continue in Kenya... well Kenya, of course, is something different. I don’t think there is total independence there. America has got a huge interest in that arrangement of Kenya,” he observed.
Malema’s remarks come a day after President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country from a US tour which saw him and his counterpart Donald Trump agree to bolster the Kenya-US peace partnership initiatives.
The trip also saw President Kenyatta meet top US business executives during which investment deals worth USD 238 million were agreed at.
The white wigs Malema was referencing to had made an appearance in an article by The Independent titled: Why African judges still wearing wigs is a glaring symbol of British colonialism.
The article, which was done in 2017, mentioned former British colonies such as Kenya and Zimbabwe in an attempt to make sense of “why the continent’s most prominent legal minds still wear the trappings of a former colonizer”, explaining how the British barristers quit donning them for being old-fashioned and uncomfortable.
During former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga's tenure, he appealed to have the wigs removed from the courtroom, calling them a foreign imposition and dreadful.
He also swapped the traditional red robes for ‘Kenyanised’ green and yellow ones.
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