Who is Julius Malema, the South African politician in the video of the White House?

Julius Malema, a South African politician, was not present on Wednesday for an oval office meeting between President Trump and President Cyril Ramaphosa from South Africa, but he met the worrying encounter.

The focus was on a video montage of his chants from the apartheid era, which the white house played during the meeting, and gave the tone for Mr. Trump's repeated accusations of racism and violence against white in South Africa, which are largely better than the black majority in the country.

Mr. Malema, 44, is the fire, the left leader of Economic Freedom Fighter's party, which is committed to redistribution of White Land in Black South Africans. The party that he had founded over a decade ago won less than 10 percent of the votes in the elections in South Africa in 2024.

On Wednesday he replied to the meeting of the White House and said in a statement to X: “A group of older men meets in Washington to clap me. There was no considerable amount of intelligence evidence of the genocide of white genocide.”

Mr. Malema made headlines in 2023 when he sang during a rally: “Kill the Boers!” A rally scream against Africa-speaking farmers who are the descendants of European settlers. The white African ethnic minority created and headed the nation's apartheid government.