Julius Malema

Published on City Press 2012-08-26

We went to the murder scene to understand what exactly happened, because since the ANC Youth League’s 23rd National Congress in 2008, we have been the only voice that spoke in defence of mine workers’ interests and aspirations.

We have on various occasions intervened and openly associated with struggles of mine workers, because we know that they are the people who benefit the least from South Africa’s mineral wealth.

We have used every platform, including all private and public meetings of the ANC, funerals, weddings, church services and so on, to advocate for the nationalisation of mines and the improvement of mine workers’ conditions.

In the document we released in 2009 about the nationalisation of mines, we said: “We made these observations because we believed that it can never be correct that South Africa’s one of the richest territories in terms of mineral wealth in the whole world, while our people are living in starvation and extreme poverty.”

Those who say it was opportunist of us to intervene and lead in the Marikana massacre are narrow- minded and lazy to think. We are not opportunist, we are continuing with the struggles we have been involved in for a considerable time now.

Workers called on our leadership because they have confidence in us and could not agree that the Zuma administration lead them in mourning and resolving the situation and crisis it has created.

Opportunism is when one takes advantage of circumstances with no regard for principle and what will become the consequences of taking such advantage.

We have not done that. We have instead set aside our personal and individual interests to look into the interests and aspirations of workers.

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Comrade Sipho Hlongwane. Yes you @comradesipho, with your skepticism about the relevance of Julius Malema and idea that he has reached his political expiry date or end of political shelf life. Let’s talk.

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When I first made the announcement that I’ll be releasing tips to other parties here; it was met with all sorts of responses from tweeps:

Now you’re really an agent: WTF for? “@Julius_S_Malema: I’ve compiled tips for DA & other political parties in SA based on ANCs strategies.

— ♚Hail To Your King♚ (@King_ESETHU) July 17, 2012

For them to overcome the government??? @Julius_S_Malema

— Maki Phyllis Motsepe (@Maki_Motsepe) July 17, 2012

I believe that we need a good political party ecosystem in South Africa to allow or force government to deliver better services for all so in the end it is the citizens who come out as winners: not individual politicians or certain connected individuals.

Elections must be won on merit; not via blind loyalty or nostalgia. The superior party, based on competence, policies or ability to deliver on them, must win. US politics change hands every 2 terms between the Democrats & Republicans because its system allows the parties involved to prove their case & pass a series of tests before people vote individuals to power.

Let’s begin…

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This is a response to the ill-informed and attention seeking open letter by Zama Ndlovu aka @JoziGoddess.

I first need to pose some questions to “the honourable comrade”

• When the apartheid government banned the ANC and forced us off our land… did we run away and start a “new country” or did we fight for what was and is rightfully ours?
• If your parents throw you out of their house, do you change your surname/invent a new one or do you remain their child?
• Did Madiba decide, after say 5, 10,15 or 25 years to give up the fight or did he soldier on and fight?

What you fail to understand, dear comrade, is that I’m not a bastard child of the ANC. I was not adopted. I am a child of the ANC through and through. Read the rest of this entry »

During my tenure as President of the ANC Youth League, I have been a victim of vilification and disreputation by many of South Africa’s leading newspapers.

The newspaper which I believe encroached on my personal space and undermined my integrity most as an individual was City Press.

In a marathon of articles that lasted more than six months, City Press ran a public trial on me and my finances with very damaging undertones – that I am the most corrupt politician in South Africa.

Amid all these allegations and innuendos, I have always made a point of meeting the leadership and editorial of City Press to give my side of the story and lay official complaints over what I believed were overboard practices by some reporters.

City Press has still not admitted to the many mistakes I said they committed in reporting on my personal life.

So the views I am expressing here are not about (saving) City Press’ face or rewarding them for anything positive they have done for me. Read the rest of this entry »

Ibhunu /e.boo.nu/ (n)

• An oppressive and exploitive system/regime (originally based on Apartheid).
• Individuals who contribute/support/perpetuate such an oppressive system
  • Police officers
  • Spies (impimpis)
  • The enforcers of the system
  • and those who unfairly benefit from the system
• Zulu term for the Afrikaners subgroup in South Africa

This post was inspired by a twitter challenge posed by @Julius_S_Malema to prove where Julius Malema ever sang songs containing the words “Shoot the Boer” in this form, language and arrangement.

To this day the context of “ibhunu” in the chant “Dubul’ibhunu” has been misinterpreted by some groups in South Africa.

Let’s get right on to it:

@Julius_S_Malema you do realize what YOUTH means? It means someone under the age of 21! Ie not an adult! So don’t you think u a grandpa too

— bella donna (@cropicap) April 19, 2012

Aren’t you a smart one? Or at least trying to. Shame. Let me educate you…

Every country or organisation defines it’s own set of age related rules.

1. Age of Consent (sexual): in some countries there is no fixed or pre-defined age of consent. You can have sex with any pubescent or post pubescent child and it would not be illegal. In South Africa it is 16.
2. Legal working age: China is known for allowing kids as young as… well, infants I guess, work. In South Africa you can not employ a kid under the age of 15.
3. Legal drinking age: South Africa’s is 18 but other countries have their own. Go do your own research.

The point of this? Youth is defined in SA as anyone between the ages of 14 to 35 years old. Am I too old to lead a youth organisation? NO! As a 31 year old, I am well within the defined age of youth. Being an older young man means I’m experienced in being young or have been a youth for longer so I can offer better advice and leadership to others.

Written by MaBlerh for Just Curious | some time around May/June 2011

The ANC remains the husband that abuses me but I’m staying for the kids. I get lied to almost everyday. My in-laws are corrupt and greedy. They really do not care about anyone besides their close family and friends. The only good thing that my husband has ever done for me is to stand up for me against my ex-husband (National Party or Apartheid) other than that I’m just a trophy that gets nice treatment occasionally when he wants me to support him in public.

The D.A is the guy that constantly urges me to leave my husband’s mansion in Malamulele and come live with him in Mphakati would treat me like a queen but I don’t trust him as he has been divorced 3 times and has 6 kids.

COPE is just an opportunist that wants me to get divorced so that i can spend my divorce settlement with his broke ass.

The NFP is a sleazy guy that lives with his parents and is looking for a shag to get confirmation that his Vuvuzela actually works.

The IFP is that unemployed guy that is so good at telling tales of how good he was at his last job and how he is destined for greatness.

The FF+ is my ex husbands half brother who claims that he can treat me better than his brother who stripped me of my dignity.

As much as I want to get out of this marriage, I really do not have anywhere to go. That’s why I chose to stay with ANC.

SA government says it’s good for a few anarchistic group of hooligans going around committing crime because it allows it to employ more police officers – after all the focus is on job creation.

If those criminals kill a few people; hey it’s good business for undertakers and business booms for insurance companies as more people take life insurance & insure their property.

This is an honest personal analysis of the current unemployment situation in South Africa inspired by, and in relation to our president’s utterances and/or the government’s stance on e-tolling.

Government’s justification of the system is that it’ll create jobs.

One needs to compare the numbers to see why e-tolling is wrong. While we are excited about the prospect of getting new infrastructure developed, as our president dubbed this year “the year of infradev”, one needs to wonder again: what are the hidden terms and conditions behind that. Will that infrastructure development mean or be just another e-tolling system – we build now & force you to pay for it later, further bankrupting citizens and businesses?

Jobs created at what/whose expense? This is becoming a trend…

1. charge people more in order to get more funds to pay welfare(they can have more kids & get more money per kid),
2. buy bigger and more expensive cars for ministers (it creates jobs for dealerships & people who wash them),
3. stay in expensive hotels (more jobs for valets, cleaners, hotel attendants, security and restaurants), etc.

With e-tolls they say a few hundred jobs will be created for people who collect the funds or do general administration at the collectors’ offices and of course the maintenance of the roads… all this from the extra money we have to cough up paying for the system.

Broken Window Fallacy all over again: increase price of doing business in SA – more expenses on roads mean price of everything goes up, getting a few people fired because companies need to save on costs/expense through downsizing, more people getting deeper in debt or even fewer people being hired or starting new businesses… just so a few jobs are created.

How do a few thousand people losing their income justify a few hundred getting new jobs?

My frustration with this issue was further exacerbated by Google South Africa in partnership with our good old government, again, introducing their new product: Woza Online; a service that allows businesses to get free websites designed, developed and hosted. Great idea right? NO! This is killing off an entire industry of entrepreneurs who offer these services at very good rates. There are businesses that resell website hosting services, that design and develop websites but hey who cares… let’s snatch food from their & kill off their industry by saying we are helping others get these things for free.

The stubbornness and arrogance in which all of this is done leaves very little to be desired and perhaps validates the call for change in ANC leadership in December for one that will understand the people and not try to screw them every chance they get.

When you have a man whose nephew lives large while his employees are committing suicide due to no salaries for years and he just shrugs his shoulders and never intervenes; instead securing his son’s position(s) in business – oh man stop denying it; we all know he gets all those businesses because of who you are – is just disgusting.

Be the lone voice of reason and you are cast outside the structures or labeled disloyal or unpatriotic.

This has to stop.