JOHANNESBURG—Julius Malema doesn’t need to put much effort into stirring controversy.
He leads a party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), whose policies include seizing all forms of “white-owned wealth,” including mines, land, and banks, for “redistribution to poor black people.”
Malema has threatened that white South Africans could be slaughtered in a “revolution” by poor black citizens taking revenge for decades of white minority rule under apartheid, an official policy that ended in 1994.
On Wednesday, Malema’s image and words stirred trouble again as they were beamed into the lives of millions around the world from the Oval Office, as U.S. President Donald Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa….