ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has called on South Africa's mines to be nationalised, according to an article in the Sowetan on Thursday.

"At the moment, when the imperialist forces are accepting the failures of capitalism, we should ask whether the time has not arrived for the government to make sure that the state owns the mines and other means of production as called for in the Freedom Charter," Malema said at the launch of the youth league's political school in Krugersdorp.

Malema said President Jacob Zuma should fast-track the implementation of the Freedom Charter of 1955 which stated that "the mineral wealth beneath the soil, monopoly industry and banks should be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole".
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