There's a hierarchy of oppression such that people did not suffer at the same level under apartheid. That's at least true according to the president of South Arica's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, who accused the Indian community of racism. "I’m not saying all, I’m saying majority,” Malema clarified about his communal statement against Indians.
Malema holds the view that the Indian community in South Africa wasn't oppressed at the same level of the native Black Africans, historically.
What did Mahatma Gandhi – the revered leader of India’s freedom movement – think of black people? Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914, broken by a few visits to India and England. While staying in Africa, he campaigned passionately to draw a line between the Indian community in South Africa and the native black Africans. Gandhi resented of Indians being put together in the same category as the native Africans. “However much one may sympathise with the Bantus, Indians cannot make common cause with them” Gandhi declared, in 1939, in contrast to another Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru who held the view that Indians and Africans should jointly oppose the white regime in South Africa.
On the internet there are dozens of people who think that Malema is telling the truth. Astra Kruger, a YouTuber, says, "I do not support Malema's politics, but he is correct when he says that Black South Africans were more oppressed than the Indians". Raymond Botha-van Dalen, another YouTuber, writes, "You can have your opinions regarding Malema, he might be extreme, but what he says is true".
Indians must confront their own ills and “hatred” of African people. That's at least according to the EFF.
Majority of Indians are racist: Malema
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