JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Hundreds were arrested for public violence, homes were petrol-bombed, and trains and buses attacked as South Africa’s third-largest political movement fired the first shots in what it pledged would be a “revolution” that would soon sweep the African National Congress (ANC) out of power.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) accuses the ANC, which has ruled since apartheid ended in 1994, of abandoning the country’s millions of poor black people in favor of “climbing into bed with white capitalists” and appeasing white taxpayers.
The EFF’s policies include seizure of land owned by white citizens for “redistribution” to impoverished blacks and “nationalization” of banks. If it comes to power, it says, there will only be room in South Africa for white people “who know their place.”…