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The infantilisation of politics

FERIAL HAFFAJEE: COMMENT - Oct 21 2008 00:00
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If there's one thing driving me into the arms of the ANC --Mark2, it's Youth League president Julius Malema and his ilk. And I'm not alone.

As he announced UDI last week, former ANC chairperson Terror Lekota was applauded only when he verbally klapped Malema, asking why we should be harangued and frightened by children.

He's so right.

In the post-Polokwane universe it is the rantings of Malema, which have scarred the body politic. From his injunction to kill for [ANC president Jacob] Zuma to his loose invocation of the phrase ""We are willing to lay down our lives for …"" and his lax approach to the independence of the judiciary, the young man with the dead eyes has, for too many months, been allowed to bully this nation. His understanding of power is not that it is a stewardship granted by citizens to leaders, but that it is a force to be unleashed across the land like a disciplining whip.

""Nobody,"" he has said, ""will tell the youth league what to do."" At other times he has sounded like a foot soldier of Pol Pot about to usher us counter-revolutionaries into re-education camp. If you think this is an overstatement, remember this is the young man who took students out of school (when the statistics show they need every classroom minute they can get) to march against the Constitutional Court judges. And nobody told him where to get off!

Some may not take him terribly seriously, but his view that former president Thabo Mbeki should be axed carried the day against more sensible calls to leave the lame duck in office where he could do no harm.Look now. Mbeki's probably a strategist behind the ANC split which is no mere splinter, as the occupiers of headquarters at Luthuli House seem to think. And for that the ruling party has got Malema and his masters to blame.

Who are his masters? Zuma is the uber-chief, who uses the young man as a battering ram; in turn, he has resisted serial requests by the national executive committee of the ANC to rein in Malema, who has become an enormous liability for the party.

This is not a treatise against young leadership, but against the infantilisation of our political discourse. Ours is a country, the founding father of which symbolised, in his early days, the value of young thought and strategic radicalism. Nelson Mandela and his generation blew like fresh winds through the ANC of their time, demanding more change more quickly. By contrast, Malema's rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.

And like haemorrhagic fever it's extremely infectious and potentially deadly. Over in the red corner is the Young Communist League (YCL), which competes daily with the ANCYL to see who can take our debate down another notch or two. Our revise sub-editor, Jo Tyler, was so incensed by the nonsense in the press release the young communists put out after Lekota announced he was leaving that she's given them a free lesson in proofreading.

And if you thought that press release was an aberration jotted down in a hurry, look at this one. Tutu and Ndungane: kindly leave politics to politicians, the YCL recommended to the former archbishops Desmond Tutu and Njongonkulu, who were in the trenches when these little 'uns were still in nappies.

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The cautionary words to these two great men are "" … yet another old and tired Anglicanism of a Christian movement theory wanting to tower large in competition with churches like Roman Catholic Church. Both have used their leadership in the clergy; to behave like politicians and to make commentary on any societal issue regardless of its relevance to religion.""

So put that in your cassock and smoke it, say the hotheads. The good thing is that we now no longer have to treat this kind of rhetoric with any seriousness and we can take our votes and make the X elsewhere.

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Funny that the DA doesn't have one single idiot of anything near the magnitude as those in such abundance in the ANC/SACP/Cosatu alliance, hey?
Jon Low on October 21, 2008, 4:33 am
Anyone who believes Feria has overstated the case for Malema as an African Pol Pot, please, read ""Sideshow"" by William Shawcross. It should be required reading for anyone aspiring to a political career and everyone who wants to comment on the consequences of anti-intellectualism as a rallying call for the illiterati.

If reading isn't your 'thing', find a copy of the film ""The Killing Fields"". If ""Hotel Rwanda"" seems like a one off, brace yourself. The genocide in Cambodia under Pol Pot took 5 million lives and the world let it happen.

All tyrants have dead eyes. There is a reason for it. Find out how monsters are made before SA falls prey to them.

Delia Riordan on October 21, 2008, 10:03 am
Dear Sweetie Pie Julius and the rest of your gaggle, please go directly to Old Mama Manto's cupboard and get some of her veggie's to put a stop to the real bad case of diaharea you are all trying to spread. It will hopefully transform you into humans from the little Sh#$'s you are.
There is a bad enough case of disentry and cholera about already in all the townships, which you and the rest of your GANG should be clearing up rather than imitating old dictators.
Razz Matazz on October 21, 2008, 5:37 am
This article is sport on. I think the author also travels with public transport and gets to hear the feelings of the general public.

I would suggest that Goodenough Kodwa, the intellectual behind the ANCYL also start travelling with public transport again and park his AUDI in his mothers place in Gugulethu, it might be more usefull there for the old lady.

If he could do that I am sure he will be able to tell Julius Malema and his comrades that the general public in trains, taxis and busses are comment about the ill-discipline and desrespect that has entered the body politic of our movement.

Respect and differing with respect is all that people are asking for. People are tired of a language that smacks of empty strong words that sounds vulgar to any thinking human being.

While those words may sound good to some people who still have hangovers on the mid 1980s, today they sound like toilet.

Many will be surprised while I am dragging the name of Goodenough in this when the poor man has been quiet. Here is the first reason:

(i) Malema made that statement immediately after the memorial lecture of Joe Gqabi in Alwal-North and the renaming of the ANC Region by President Jacob Zuma from Ukhahlamba to Joe Gqabo region.

(ii) In that memorial lecture, Mr Tokyo Sexwale had commented that when they were still in MK the leadership would teach them that our is not a blood revolution and loss of life must always be avoided. People must avoid taking others life and must take every precaution to avoid that their lives are taken too. In concluding Mr Sexwale said, when the leadership said that, we privately said, we are preppared to kill for the revolution. That was the context.

(ii) Enter Goodenough, Julius was not in that memorial lecturer that was addressed by Mr Sexwale, but Goodenough was.

(iii) It would be surprising that Mr Sexwale can utter such words in the evening and the folowing evening Julius utters the same words except substituting the revolution for Zuma (to him the revolution is Zuma).

When I heard that he uttered those words in Bloemfontein the following day, after President Zuma and his enourage that included Goodenough had left Alwal-North for Bloemfontein where they met Julius, I was not surprise.

I am not surprsie because plagiarism is what defines the ANCYL, if they can steal other peoples words that are uttered in public and authored in many books, what would happen to the public funds they would spend in dark corners?
Mhlayifani Pati on October 21, 2008, 9:49 am
Lol. Agreed...
frank nnete on October 21, 2008, 8:57 am
The decision to recall the former President was taken by the NEC. Unless people want to argue that the NEC was influenced by Malema's utterances. There also seem to be suggestions that Judge Nicholson was intimidated into making the findings he made because of what Malema said. Why has Malema become so important and so influential. Whatever, he says seems to rattle the country. Is it the case that he has become important and influential or is the media that is making him so. The real issues in this country are about poor education-those kids are better off going to Malema's rally; poor public health system, lack of jobs, poor service delivery. All these affect the poor and the voiceless who only become important during. Some of us including most of those working in the media are not affected by any of the issues I have mentioned that is why we will always seek to maintain th status quo. The real threat of revoltand chaos from this country does not come from Malema but from those millions that have been waiting for the fruits of democracy for the past 14 years.
Mfela Mahlangu on October 21, 2008, 9:03 am
Ag! There’s nothing surprising with your slanted analysis. You’ve been sounding like a broken ever-repeating tape cassette. Everyone knows your subjective standing on ANC, so we cannot expect your analysis to be (at any stage) objective..

You go further to say “… in the red corner is the Young Communist League (YCL), which competes daily with the ANCYL to see who can take our debate down another notch or two??

Then, I ask this question…What about you [M&G] who’re competing with Makhanya in his weekly balderdash? You noticed that Makhanya was getting more attention with his forever condemned depiction of ANC, SACP & COSATU leaders, and you decided to also publish the same nonsensical cartoon, to see who can take “our debate down another notch or two??.

You’re sounding more like an amoeba calling the snail shapeless...Such a(n) hypocrite

Siphiwo Qangani with kangaroos on October 21, 2008, 9:06 am
The media has a way of demonising a person by quoting a certain portion of his speech that they know will make that person look bad.

In the ""kill for Zuma"" speech there were lot of other things that were said but the media chose to highlight only that portion so as to a bad name to this boy.

I've listened to Malema on a number of interviews and he speaks sense.

We are tired of the newspaper headlines, we want the whole story to make up our own minds

ALUTA!
M D on October 21, 2008, 9:11 am
Taking our X elsewhere sums it up very well.
George Lopez on October 21, 2008, 9:21 am
Good article. Could not agree with you more. The gutter politics we are seeing in response to Shilowa's move is further proof that Julius is the visible front of a more endemic problem in the ruling party, and that is crass arrogance and disregard for the electorate who are not its members. I'm disgusted.
Siphiwo Siphiwo on October 21, 2008, 10:11 am
Mfela and others like you,

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC is just that, an executive of the ANC. The ANC itself has 660 000 members as of last December, clearly fewer now that some of them are leaving. The country on the other hand, has 48 million South Africans. Those South Africans last voiced their opinions in 2004, when they voted on the ANC's old manifesto. That manifesto said nothing about the removal of the State President, Provicial Premiers or the squashing of the Scorpions. The same NEC you so arrogantly treat as the parallel government of the land, is full of many unelected individuals, who therefore have absolutely no business making decisions on behalf of an electorate that never put them in those positions in the first place.

It is incredibly annoying to listen to infantile and narrow-minded arguments such as the one you profer, which on the whole suggest that the Party (ANC) is superior to the State and the electorate. No real democracy functions like that.

If the ANC had issues of governance with the Head of State, they needed to take them to parliament, where an impeachment process would have unfolded. In that way, we as citizens get an opportunity to find out what drove the ANC to remove Mbeki. To date, we don't know aside from weak and varied reasons offered by Gwede Mantashe, Thandi Modise, Mathews Phosa and Jacob Zuma, which were not from the same hymn sheet!

After years of such crass arrogance from the ANC, where I have been ignored as if I don't exist, I am ready to make my X elsewhere too. It cannot be right that I am not allowed to have my say on major national decisions simply because I am not a member of a political party. I find it unacceptable that the ANC still has not asked Jacob Zuma to explain why he took tainted money from Shaik, an act for which Shaik is now sitting in hospital (should be jail). Because according to ANC discipline, a member is not allowed to ask such a pertinent question, then I want nothing to do with your ANC.

People like you need a lesson in inclusive constitutional democracy. You have been so brainwashed by the ANC and SACP's marxist doctrine that you are convinced that you are on a superior intellectual plane, when in fact you sound like a broken record, repeating the empty party line that ""the leadership has spoken"", and therefore you are not allowed to think for yourself.

Unfortunately for you, South Africans are sick and tired of not thinking. We will no longer be instructed on how and what to think. We are thinking for ourselves, and one of the things we know is that the Julius Malema's and Buti Manamela's of this world offend people on so many different levels. Aside from their nauseating arrogance and delusions of grandeur, they offend most of us from a human point of view. They use gutter language on respected citizens of this country and to cap it all, they stand for a failed, bankrupt system overwhelmingly rejected by the world.

I and many people I know, will not be voting for your ANC next year, and nothing can change our minds. We'd have to be totally stupid to do that. In fact, we are going to this Convention, and when it is finished and a new political party formed, we are rolling up our sleeves, hitting the streets and campaigning on behalf of the new formation. We are sick of taking the punches and insults. You carry on with your arrogance, and we'll carry on espousing the values that should characterise our democracy. A new chapter has started, and it will not close for a very long time.

Siphiwo Siphiwo on October 21, 2008, 10:30 am
The YCL and ANCYL are symbols of what I call "" peace time heroes"". Unlike youth leaders in the olden days who used to be called upon to join SDU (self defense units) in the Townships during the dark days of apartheid. These leaders go around in flashy cars; they go to fancy parties and live in fancy townhouses in good suburbs. It’s very easy to call a press conference these days, very easy to sit and scribble junk and call it policy lately, very easy to call oneself 'militant'. Malema and other youth league leaders have no mettle. They are peace time revolutionaries, the ANC leadership should have chastised them for making such comments about the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Failure to do so has confirmed to me, that the ANC has changed in character. I guess I will have to make another plan with my vote next time around
Floyd Tshegare on October 21, 2008, 10:40 am
The sad reality for Julius is that he is writting his own political obituary other than winning the hearts of any matured civilized person. he is more of a bodyguard for zuma and defends how zuma sneezes. what about issues that face our youth currently those issues that the youth league and all other youth formations should be rallying around for now. i make mention of unemployment, crime, drugs and alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS and now teenage pregnancies. there is no mention of their radical programmes to help in advancing the plight of the many young people they claim to be representing yes politics affect us but as youth formations our social fabric is dying sorry to say Julius is a negative role model to any aspiring young politician. let him turn the corner and advance issues affecting us the youth not his point scoring political vengeance.
Bigman Peter Crutse on October 21, 2008, 10:59 am
Your article doen not represent the view of the masses,we the ANC people of this beloved country of our grandfathers, but your only lousy spiteful racist opinion. No matter how much paint you may apply to Malema, he's one of ours and hence we cannot betray him. Viva ANC!Viva ANCYL! Viva Jacob Zuma!
Together and united, we'll frustrate and paralyse our enemies!
Mishack Mbuyane on October 21, 2008, 10:59 am
By all means, Miz Hafajee, make your 'X' elsewhere......... it's your constitutiuonal right.......
Why you would want to publicise your 'fantasy' though, is beyond me .....

Karl Mocke on October 21, 2008, 11:05 am
I think the media is blowing this out of propotion.Even the people who are happy because of what is happenning in the ANC are themselves undemocratic.How can u queation the outcome of the Polokwane conference?The people voted for Zuma,that is it.I might be 21,but believe me,it is still too early to think that black people have forgoten what white people have done to them.So ANC will always be a party of hope to the mass of the black people.You can laugh as much as u want,but ANC will still be in power come 2009,whether Lekota and his power hungry pupperts form a political party or not.
Mogobo Lebepe on October 21, 2008, 11:13 am
The fact is South Africa does not need neither old Mbeki nor old Zuma in its politics , these guys have caused too much damage to the country.They are to destroy our most dearest liberation movement(ANC), an organisation that was built by a few for the many and the many then joined it lay down their lives ,gave to it their hearts.Swallowed their aspirations but joined to push this movement forward.

And then in a but brief instance compared to the life of 'ukhongolose'(ANC) these two(old Mbeki and old Zuma) came like thieves in the night and took from the soul of the ANC.We can not let this happen because in these wars I do not want neither old MBEKI to win nor old ZUMA to win ,but for the ANC to win!! DO YOU HEAR THAT THE ANC TO WIN!!..The fact is none of us are owed anything by the ANC nor by the country nor any one nor anything for that matter.

For we fought to lead our country not to loot it.I love this country I love all its people I love the wind beneath the sand that blows it up for the wind it the brother of the sand because they are both Elements.I too love you dear countrymen 'mkhaya'.Let us follow suite and raise up the family of South Africa.Let my brother be my brother and inspite of all things let me love him for this country like you ,is my brother and I love it. VIVA the GREATEST of all movements VIVA khongolose VIVA ANC.for now and forever more.

young people of this country need not be fighting against older us for there are no young people in our politics because the old buggers are taking up space 'bavimbezele indawo'.It is time that the country to find new direction.

Excuse my tongue but our movement is not a 'prostitute of every one to have a turn' before they die. Why are there people who could not find jobs anywhere else if they looked but these same people are given a job to do the most important job of all 'LEADING THE COUNTRY'. Just because they are ANC 'members'.

I think that if the government created a 'liberation indebtedness grant' so we can pay these people what they think they 'deserve for liberating us' and them.Perharps the country will be better run if these clowns stay at home because that is better than them pay off their 'debt' by destroying our country and our Movement.
there is nothing else to say but VIVA ANC VIVA AFRICA .LIZOBUYA LELIZWE
zimbali khwela on October 21, 2008, 11:50 am
Comrade M D it is true that the media can pick a certain part or portion from someone's statement and turn it around to suit a particular context But in the case of Malema, ""his Uncles"" and now his Aunty Angie they are not smeared or misquoted its truth, everyone can hear and sees it, even a 5year old boy in my street knows Julius as that rude man...it reminds me of Soul Brothers' song Akekho Okhuz'omunye. What happened to discipline, manners, respect of ideology...to emphasise a point you do't have to you strong words, vulgar..if you cannot express yourself clearly in English use your own mother tongue and be polite But still stress your point. African Languages are also official and they can be interpreted to English. Sebenisani uLimi lwenu comrades, niyeke intlamba, niyasihlaza eZizweni. You are now talk of the town for nothing. There is still room to improve, Not very late. Malema must make public apology for his statements. Who is He anyway? in the list
Simphiwe Kakaza on October 21, 2008, 12:21 pm
The good news is that we live in a democracy. My simple logic tells me that if one is not happy with a political party, they should vote for an alternative. So, instead of endless complaints about what is happening in the ANC I suggest that people shut up and vote accordingly. As for me & a whole bunch of other acquaintances I am much much happier with the current ANC and I will be voting accordingly. I say lets all go out and vote for parties of our choice. And oh yes, be careful, very careful of what our media prefers to report.

Viva Malema
Nobody Nobody on October 21, 2008, 12:43 pm
Eish, the trouble is the most radical ones often get elected!
Maybe in time Julius will realise this is HIS country and he doesn't need to burn it to fix it. And that lighting a fire in your own living room, while spectacular and really attention-getting, can cause an awful mess that's very hard to fix later - when you're in power.
Nurture the beloved country, Julius. It's worth building, my son.
pete ess on October 21, 2008, 1:18 pm
I agree 100%. Excellent piece.

Uou have to ask: Is it by coincidence that Malema, Zuma, Nzimande and Mantashe appear to have the same disposition?

Second self-reflection: do human societies co-create each other?

Now, imagine making society believe this is the best the ANC youth league came up with. Does this give anyone anything to aspire toward?

No. I also did not think so. How on earth can an organisation like the ANC be associated with an idiot of the highest caliber amazes me.

Kosheek Sewchurran on October 21, 2008, 1:29 pm
Why is Angie Motshega calling other South Africans ""Dogs"". I thought people like her suppose to guide and teach the likes of Julius Malema.
Seretse Ratlhagane on October 21, 2008, 1:39 pm
Perhaps FERIAL HAFFAJEE should re-print the whole speech of Julious Malema. Marie Curie once declared ""Nothing is to be feared it is to be understood"". It is natural for old people to misunderstand and exaggerate the youth.

Its weird how quick the RSA media judges people who are not willing to be puppets of the neoliberals. John Pilger calls this politics by media, trial by media. The media has forgotten ""kill the farmer kill the boerer"" of Peter Mokaba. How about the silence of the media on FF+ ""Die Bobbejaan klim die Berg"" and FF+ protests against uniting all races in hostels of universities.Perhaps what is scary is the silence of the DA youth and other youth leagues because it means they are puppets of the baby boomers generations. In the ANC there are no puppets. This is the Y-Generation announcing its arrival for leadership.
Temba Joja on October 21, 2008, 2:20 pm
I agree 100% with Delia Riordan-have read William Shawcross' book and been to Cambodia a few times, including to Pol Pot's grave near the last outpost of the Kmer Rouge. We are lucky that we still have the option of establishing another opposition party, but for how long will we have this luxury? The reports coming from this past weekend's get-together are most disturbing, and indicative of the imminent commencement of Stage 2 of the People's Revolution. Unfortunately, history teaches us that people don't learn from history and it seems that we are going to go down the route that has proved to be disastrous in so many countries- and that while the whole world is facing tough times economically.
Faith Botha on October 21, 2008, 3:36 pm
Media has become our brains and parent guiding us in how to live life and to think. All what is happening is because of our media. I can tell you now, if people can stop to be lazy and begin to establish their own conclusions. Other people can loose their job - those who like making propagandas. I wish the anc can also learn to communicate prior to whatsoever move they anticipate to embark on. Not to have people like malima distorting information, I mean not selecting words correctly when articulating the anc position. Malima is a minor in politics and can not influence anc leadership or supporters of the anc. He is just making noise, as fikile used to do, they is nothing new/wrong about him. It is the media that make him so big like. I trust the current ANC. They will be developments in rural areas for the first time in 14years of democracy.
Malibongwe Ndlozi on October 21, 2008, 2:40 pm
Never have I ever seen such self-induced hatred as it is evident in the ANC today. This anchored organisation has become a bastion of self serving megalomaniacs that stop at nothing but at self-beauty deceit. Indeed, it has become a contest of illiterati, where everything associated with manners is anathema. As if it is not enough from hearing the ""yelps"" now, the perceivably ""mother"" Angie, disdainfully names the people that she has served with, dogs. This is really beyond definition. Do these guys ever pause to ponder ?
Zama Zitha on October 21, 2008, 5:56 pm
I still can't work out whether people dislike Malema's politics, or simply his youthfulness. The flip answer is both; but let's not pretend away the fear and hostility evoked by youth in South Africa, and across the world, as they continually push the boundaries set by old people to secure themselves against change.

For example: what was Mandela's first message to youth in 1991? Don't remember? - It was 'go back to school' which also meant ' let the old men run the politics'. The result? Virtually nothing for youth in the RDP or since. There is little more apparent in recent months than an incredible antipathy to youth - not just Malema, all youth who (oh my god) have succeeded in business or politics are included, for daring not to know their place, alongside the lumpen youth who burn tyres and throw rocks at police or turn to crime. No, it's not because he's young, claims Ferial - and then says that politics has been infantilised, by Malema and the YLs - ANCYL and YCL. And in so doing, she reproduces the complaints made throughout history - that young people lack discipline, they have it too easy, they didn't suffer like we did, they aren't strategic enough, they aren't ... dammit ... old like us! They need proof-reading lessons from sub-editors! They drive flashy cars! They aren't respectful to their elders! They don't listen to those of us who were ""in the trenches"" when they were ""still in nappies"". They're rude! They're hotheads! The sky is falling on our heads!

If you don't like Malema's politics, have a go. But to attack the guy because he's young does nothing more than prove that you've become a stuffy old fart, scared of the restless energy of youth that has been the engine of change throughout history.

david everatt on October 22, 2008, 8:34 am
We all know that ANCYL presidents have been outspoken over the past few years. We would remember the late comrade Peter Mokaba who was known as kill the boor kill farmer, that was completley wrong however comrades could support that because he was adressing the oppressor. An Oppressor is now the figment of our imagination. From the establishment of the YL to this very day, i personaly don't think theres been a president who has been this arrogant. This ""boy"" has been the spoke's person of the new leadership for the past few months. The late comrade Steve Tswethe said Phosa, Ramaphosa and Sexwale wants to destroy the government and every one thought he was talking nonsence, Its marely 10 years and the government have been destroy by the same people. The second of November is realy taking forever to come we realy need the new party to be formed. ANC shall never have the two third majority the shwred will ensure that!!!
Bongane Makwakwa on October 22, 2008, 10:31 am
Pres. Mbeki has erred in the handling of the whole arms deals saga, for reasons beyond comprehension some people refuse to see any wrong doing from him, he is human and humans make mistakes and are subject to human weakness - like pride, he refuses to believes he is capable of making mistakes, and his cronies follow him religiously and anything anti-Mbeki surely must be demonic in nature and substance. Julius Malema is a politician of our times he addresses issues ( without fear or prejudice ) that affect us as the youth – ANC or not. Demonising him wont make problems go away. Democracy is not perfect and I am of the opinion that if we knew everything it entails we wouldn’t have chosen it. Democracy allows a President to be impeached or called back, when it happens to Mbeki they cry foul.
Tshepo Morobi on October 22, 2008, 7:58 pm
LETS NOT HUMILIATE INFANTS:-To compare Malema's mentality and intelligence with that of an infant is a gross injustice to infancy. There is none so blind and dangerous as those who don't have the logic or capacity to approach and solve a problem with wisdom. Mr malema seems to possess neither of these virtues. But we must admit that he has made some positive contribution to the political scene, by forcing realists in the ANC to separate from those who prescribe to militancy and mob rule.
daniel koen on October 23, 2008, 10:31 am
Good points for sure that must be considered. The problem is why is he being allowed to behave in this way. The ANC NEC should be able to control or condone such behaviour. We have lost our way for sure in our long fought for freedom of Aparthied, Juluis is infringing on our freedom again. He is an empty vessel and dangerous to be head of ANC youth league what role models do we want in our society, this is what the ANC has dished up again. People democracy is being able to think for yourself and not to be led by mob mindsets, think of your childrens future it is looking bleak to me!
Evelyn D'Allende - Covington on October 23, 2008, 8:24 am
what a pity for those that seem to encourage the rhetoric and rudeness of malema. we should uphold a leadership that knows where we come from and pave the way for future aspiring politicians do we want future malema's. let him learn a few lessons from Malusi Gigaba.
by the way what is his phobia with studying or being polite.
Bigman Peter Crutse on October 23, 2008, 12:22 pm


Contrary to pop belief, I think there is much method in Malema et al's madness...perhaps 'infantilisation' then is a misnomer.
frank nnete on October 23, 2008, 2:35 pm
JZ (and his leutenants) and TM (and his yes-men) are definitely going down in history as the guys that brought down the greatest movement ever! Neither of these men is prepared to admit that they are wrong because they are both power-hungry... The people will decide at the next poll. My only fear is that we will see an sharp increase in threats, violence, intolerance and the like in the run-up to the polls next year. We have already seen political intolerence this week in Gauteng when Terror drummed up support for the natioal convention. That was just the beginning... And the ANC have the balls and nipples to say that Lekota and his followers are politically intolerant and they call them dogs! The people shall govern... We are witnessing history in the making at least three times in our lifetime! First the release of Rolihlahla and others from prison, then the dawn of democracy (which is the greatest thing for this country - or any country in Africa fro that matter!) and now possibly the downfall of the greatest movement in history! The alliance memmbers think that they are greater than the electorate. ""Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finallly and permanently destroyed and abandoned, everywhere is war"" - HIM. Watch this space...
Lucas on October 24, 2008, 7:24 am
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