Durban - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa does not qualify for South African tenders because "he is not black enough and he has done everything in his life to please white people", Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Tuesday.
"Tenders must be given to genuine blacks. Cyril Ramaphosa is not black, he is non-white. Everything else he is doing in his life is to please white people. We can't say he is black," said Malema.
Malema was addressing hundreds of Student Command members at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Westville campus.
Malema said the EFF wanted tenderpreneurs "who will not be used by whites".
"We want blacks who will not be fronted by white people. We say we are empowering black people, only to find that we're empowering curtains. At the back of those people are white people. We're not ashamed to empower and fight for black people," he said.
The EFF is in Durban ahead of its fourth anniversary, scheduled to be held at Curries Fountain on Saturday.