We are worse [off] than we were during the times of apartheid. We are being killed by our own people. We are being oppressed by our own government. … Every mine has a politician inside. They give them money every month, they call it shares. But it is a protection fee to protect whites against the workers.

To a workers rally at the Aurora mine, East Rand, as quoted in "Malema: Apartheid was better", in Times Live (31 August 2012)