In the shadow of the red buffoon

South Africa has just set a new record for itself in terms of public lunacy, which is not really surprising. Ever since the ANC took over they’ve outdone themselves many times in terms of foolishness.

This time it concerns the corpulent firebrand Julius Malema who made his first speech in the House of Parliament on the 18th of June. This brand new MP shuns the idea of wearing neckties or pressed suits, and prefers to be seen in red coveralls, effectively heightening his status as laughing stock of South Africa’s new ruling elite.

Julius Malema has already been much caricatured and lampooned by cartoonists and other public figures, even in his years as leader of the ANC Youth League. Regardless of his flair for red berets and coveralls, he certainly is not a man of great talent. In fact, if this one trick pony has any talent at all, it would be to rile up the masses of unskilled, ignorant and bloodthirsty peasants, something he appears to be quite good at. While on the one hand demanding that whites should speak an African language, he prefers to give his own speeches in English, probably due to his white English speechwriter’s inability write in Sotho – Malema’s mother tongue – or any other African language.

I recall an incident in primary school during those bad old days of white rule when our entire class had to roll up at the headmaster’s office for failing a Sotho test, which was a mandatory five year subject back then. Our welted derrières put a quick end to that apathy and our Sotho language skills took a turn for the better after that. No doubt, the erstwhile government did more for nation building than Malema would like to admit. In any event, had the African people produced more literature of a Goethe, Shakespeare or Proust, I’m sure the African languages would have enjoyed a higher standing with the world’s foremost literati, effectively making Malema redundant.

It would be important to mention that one would be deluded into believing that we are dealing with some brain-dead offshoot renegade. If that had been the case, Malema never would have made it past the ANC’s Hitlerjugend in the first place. There are a few clues indicating that his band of thugs are a front for a more grandiose Communist takeover, a second revolution in the making. If the study of history has any meaning at all, we should apply it here and now. Lest we forget that the other proud paragon of Communist scheming – the exalted Nelson Mandela – was secretly contrived as long ago as 1953, known amongst the initiates as “Plan M”.

As Franklin D Roosevelt once said, nothing in the world happens by coincidence…especially not when the far left is involved, one might add.

Firstly the level of organisation that his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has built up in only a short year or two indicates that there’s more than meets the eye. A formal political party cannot be drawn if there is no clear goal or mission statement. Therefore, regardless of whether his parliamentary circus acts have any merit, his party has a clear mission known perhaps to only a small group of insiders. The other party members only follow orders and convey hot air to the public. The way in which he adorns himself with various luxury goods, the mass-produced red berets, his wide-ranging publicity and other party political paraphernalia implies that he has some financially capable sponsors. It would therefore be a mistake to assume that Malema simply is a nobody who became a somebody by chance. He is a leader of a radical political party because someone wants him to be there.

Secondly, it appears as if he has changed his tune since his entry into main stream politics. His anti-white vitriol is now replaced with mainly anti-capitalist outbursts, only occasionally showing his true colours by inconsequentially depicting whites as racists and thus deserving of contempt. He also did some window dressing by including some white useful idiots into his ranks to hide his true intentions. Anybody with a basic understanding of Marxist theory can see how his party has secretly been shaped by intellectuals leaning towards the left. Once again these schemers from the shadows employed their favourite Commie party trick, the Hegelian dialectical principle. In short, Hegelian dialectics imply that when there are two opposing forces, a thesis and an antithesis, they need to be fused together in a mutually beneficial synthesis.

In Malema’s case, he wants to eliminate the whites (thesis). This would obviously meet up with resistance by whites, not to mention possible legal sanctions (antithesis). The synthesis would then be to include some whites by insisting that they themselves would benefit from this agreement. Uncooperative whites would be branded as capitalists, land owners, colonials or similar terms implying that they have a choice in handing over their hard-earned belongings. This obfuscates the fact that their white skin is his real eyesore. In practice, the net outcome for honky is the same: they are to be rendered powerless and open to victimisation. By slightly covering up his true intentions makes it hard to legally pin them down and thus highly treacherous.

Thirdly, his experience with black youths at his former job has left him with the understanding that they are the ideal candidates to help foment any war or revolution that one sees fit. As Lenin once said, the best revolutionary is a youth devoid of morals. All party members should work together to make the young, both male and female, anti-social and immoral. The black youths from the Eastern Cape in the 1950’s to the Sharpeville massacre, the Soweto riots and the “Comrades” in the mid 1980’s have all demonstrated the validity of Lenin’s observation. It would not surprise if their next step would be to train dim-witted young whites alongside blacks in paramilitary training camps, a peculiarity perfectly in step with Communist principles.

Not to mention the obvious red colour of his attire, which has a clear allusion to Communism. Red being the colour of blood, anger, youth, war, revolution and comradeship.

Another one of Communism’s dirty tricks is to participate in illegal activities, but also have a front organisation that is legal. One should therefore operate on two bases, one legal and one illegal. The emotionally charged speeches in parliament demonstrating his passionate involvement with his cause while the number of whites murdered on farmsteads has increased dramatically since the World Cup Soccer event of 2010. In some instances it is known that young African marauders chanted “Viva Malema” when attacking a white farmer in his home.

Strictly speaking it may not be possible to infer a direct involvement between Malema’s EFF and the killing of whites, yet there doesn’t really need to be one. The firing up of basic emotions and filling the minds of young Africans with odious ideals would suffice to give this killing spree a life of its own. Recall how during the French Revolution the level of barbarism peaked with peasants mocking and dancing in the streets with beheaded corpses…and all the while longing for the Noble Savage ideals as laid down by Jean Jacques Rousseau, who was in fact the real source of this revolution.

Understanding the Hegelian dialectic is of utmost importance to grasp the workings of the shadow government, which is toiling day and night to encroach on our freedoms and dignity. Having learned from Communist Eastern Europe and Asia, the world’s elite has found ways to refine their strategy for global control. Malema is only the umpteenth pawn in their game. Where he is today, the West would follow suit.

By that same operation, it would only be prudent to use internet and various social media to counteract these forces, and we have no time to waste.

Our survival depends on it.

Man cuts toddler’s throat with broken bottle

brokenbottleA black man from Limpopo accused of killing his girlfriend’s two-year-old son in Seshego appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

Seshego is the home town and support base of EFF leader, Julius Malema.

Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said the matter was postponed to June 23 for a bail application.

Kgabo Masiya, 32, allegedly cut the throat of his girlfriend’s toddler with a broken bottle at her house.

EFF will nationalise the ocean, abalone, perlemoen

Paulsen
Paulsen

The Economic Freedom Fighters would nationalise the ocean to ensure South Africans benefit from the country’s natural resources, the fledgling party’s Western Cape premier candidate said on Friday.

“We need to end the limited access people have to natural resources,” Nazier Paulsen told the Cape Town Press Club.

“We will nationalise the ocean, the abalone, the perlemoen,” he said, adding that it was unconscionable that national government awarded fishing quotas to international companies instead of poor local communities.

Paulsen, a 47-year-old lecturer, said the EFF’s aims included total gender parity, free education up to post-graduate level, minimum farm workers’ wages of R5000, and creating a provincial construction company that would provide 100,000 jobs.

The company would be set up to end the corruption-prone practice of contracting private builders to construct social housing, and would “end the spacial divide” that persisted 20 years after the advent of democracy.

Paulsen also wants to end the apartheid spacial divide being managed by the Democratic Alliance.

Referring to DA leader Helen Zille as the “the madam”, he said her provincial executive had not only failed to create “a single job”.

Source: Sapa

Julius Malema suddenly turns attention on Afrikaners after British visit

...or not to be? The British puppet dreams of a new scorched earth
…or not to be. The British puppet dreams of a new scorched earth

It never takes too long for any black politician in South Africa to become a paid puppet of a foreign colonial power.

Julius Malema wasted no time. Juju has suddenly turned all his attention on the white Afrikaners calling them the “Broederbond” or “Stellenbosch mafia”.

This happened strangely right after Malema’s interview with the FT which appeared on the front page last week.

They “control” South Africa, according to Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) chief Malema. He declared Afrikaners a “mafia” on Saturday in Cape Town to launch his party’s provincial manifesto.

The new Boerhaat direction the EFF leader has adopted – a very old theme in Britain which led to thousands of white Afrikaners being killed in concentration camps – is directed mainly at white Afrikaner farmers.

It has long been suspected that Britain would like to see Afrikaners abandon their land as the British generously fund organisations such as PLAAS to bring about Zimbabwean-style “land reform”.

The British brought the ANC to power, some say, only so that South Africa could once again become part of the Commonwealth. It seems as though Malema has just been instructed to finish the ethnocide against Afrikaners.

The Broederbond was infiltrated and disbanded in the 1980’s and the few rich individuals in Stellenbosch do not represent Afrikaners. Nevertheless, South Africa could only achieve economic emancipation if the Broederbond was dismantled, Malema declared.

What Malema probably meant to say was that emancipation could only be achieved by “wiping out the last vestiges of Afrikanerdom”. Lord Kitchener, the architect of the phrase as well as the concentration camps that killed mostly women and children, also used black soldiers during the Anglo-Boer War to terrorise Afrikaners.

Malema mostly ranted on about the importance of the expropriation of white land without compensation, a centrepiece of his party’s election manifesto.

White farmers are being slaughtered daily while the South African Police Service watches idly, taking no interest in the ongoing internationally recognised genocide.

Malema entered the Mandela Park Stadium like a rock star, with marshalls struggling to hold back crowds of adoring fans.

“Don’t underestimate the Stellenbosch mafia. They control everything in South Africa,” Malema warned about 2.500 EFF supporters at the stadium in Khayelitsha.

“They control the judiciary, they control the economy, they control the land, they control the chain stores, they control the mines, they control the banks,” Malema said, ignoring the glaring reality of a firm British grip on the country since 1994.

A cursory glance at who owns what in South Africa shows that Afrikaners are, with the exception of a few lucky ones, barely represented in any sector, except education where they earn a pittance to teach blacks English.

The hate-filled rhetoric against Afrikaners sounded more like the old white Anglo-Saxon discourse, but blacks have often warmed to the theme.

Most Afrikaners are permanently locked out of the job market because they do not qualify for Affirmative Action and BBEE, and almost a million now live as squatters as a result. Nearly as many have emigrated to escape harsh racial laws and naked racial discrimination they have to face daily.

According to Malema, both the ANC and the DA take instructions from this “mafia”, even though both parties favour racial and ethnic discrimination against Afrikaners.

“If the Stellenbosch boys don’t want you to be anything, you will never become something in life.”

Malema said the Broederbond exerted influence through an “only white” and predominantly Afrikaner unit of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) to “destroy emerging individuals” and protect monopoly capital. “If the Broederbond says ‘this boy is a problem’, Sars (goes) after him,” he said.

Malema has been provisionally sequestrated by the High Court in Pretoria after an application by Sars over a R16 million tax debt.

He said this unit also had “one Indian who thinks like (a white)”.

“It is the unit in Sars that still reflects apartheid,” Malema said.

“Now that unit goes and terrorises every small business which is competing with the multinationals, including companies that are owned by Broederbond people.”

During his 45-minute speech, Malema also had the crowd in stitches with his insults to rivals.

Referring to President Jacob Zuma, whom he didn’t name, Malema said it was odd that someone with a head “that looks like butternut” still “couldn’t think”.

Turning his attention to “the madam” – Western Cape premier Helen Zille – he said when she “saw us from distance, she must be shivering in her heels”.

Malema targets big spenders says FT

MalemaFTThe Financial Times carried this story titled: Malema targets big game in ANC’s heartland on the front page:

Sitting in a plush lodge on the edge of Kruger National Park, the self-styled

revolutionary and spokesman for South Africa’s dispossessed outlines calmly his plans to expropriate land from white farmers, and nationalise banks and mines in Africa’s largest economy.

“We are worse than the way we were during apartheid,” he tells the Financial Times during a 90 minute interview. “The only thing that has changed is the government of white people has been replaced with a government of black people.”

The stout, boyish-looking 33-year-old, dressed in black tracksuit and black trainers, is a highly divisive figure. To critics, including many businesspeople, he is an opportunistic rabble-rouser tainted by corruption allegations. To supporters, he is a rare voice speaking to the divisions enduring in one of the world’s more unequal societies despite strides taken since the end of white rule.

Campaigning to the left of the ruling African National Congress he aspires to steal votes from the ruling party’s heartland, the rural and urban black poor, in elections on May 7. They are widely expected to be the most closely contested since the end of apartheid 20 years ago.

Mr Malema described president Jacob Zuma – the man he helped propel to the country’s top job – as a “monster”, and denounced the ANC’s 20-year record in power. He formally launched his Economic Freedom Fighters in October after being expelled from the ANC – where he led the militant youth league – for indiscipline in 2012.

He makes the point that while under the ANC more black people may have gained access to water and electricity, the water is often not clean and the electricity connection does not guarantee power. “So you are actually in more pain because these things are closer to you and, close as they are, you cannot use them,” he says.

This message resonates with the frustrated black majority in a country where youth unemployment is at least 50 per cent, and almost 40 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. It also carries weight with blacks of all classes who believe they are still economically marginalised in a country where the corporate world remains predominantly in white hands.

The challenge for Mr Malema is to turn disgruntlement into votes and survive court cases that could derail his career.

The politician, whose penchant for designer watches has come to symbolise his perceived opulent lifestyle, has had his properties auctioned off as the revenue authority has pursued him for R16m ($1.5m) in outstanding taxes. He is fighting a sequestration order and says he is willing to make a revised offer to resolve the matter.

Mr Malema has courted controversy in the past by saluting President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe but he says the EFF would not follow the path of Zimbabwe, where the forced and often violent seizure of white-owned land triggered a collapse of the economy.

But he says he wants government to be the custodian of land that grants licences to users and insists the state should control 60 per cent of mines.

“Foreign investors who are prepared to share with South Africans are more than welcome,” he says. “But if it is about individualism and maximisation of profit to the exclusion of indigenous people, such a foreign investor will not be entertained.”

Mr Malema and the EFF have brought a new dimension to the country’s political landscape. Pallo Jordan, an ANC intellectual, has said the ANC “might opt for more radical policies” if it faces an effective challenge from the left, “realigning South African politics in directions that few will have anticipated”.

The other threat to the ANC comes from the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party. But it is still viewed by many – fairly or not – as a largely white party.

Yet for all his outward confidence Mr Malema acknowledges the campaign against the well-oiled ANC election machinery is a difficult one. And touting his radical policies can be a hindrance when seeking financial backers.

“It is a very difficult campaign in that we do not have resources and our policies are such that those who own resources will never finance us,” Mr Malema says. “Elections are very expensive things in South Africa, but if we had resources we would remove the ANC from power tomorrow.”

Source: FT. By Lionel Barber, Andrew England & Javier Blas

Malema: Winnie last remaining revolutionary in ANC

Juju and Winnie
Juju and Winnie

EFF leader Julius Malema praised Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and said should be honoured for her struggle for liberation. Madikizela-Mandela, as a struggle icon could have become president of the country, he said.

“If we do not honour Winnie Mandela, it means the apartheid propaganda has succeeded. To defeat the propaganda we have to honour the remaining revolutionary.”

Malema said that allegations about lawyer Dali Mpofu, who left the ANC and joined the EFF last month, and Madikizela-Mandela having an affair were not true.

“This man does not have the potential to sleep with his mother. Winnie is Mpofu’s mother.”

Malema claimed ANC leaders benefited from investors as far back as the early 1990s. He mentioned leaders by name, saying they benefited from foreign companies currently operating in the country.

Madikizela-Mandela, Malema said, was the “only cadre of the revolution”.

Malema said Madikizela-Mandela will not join the Economic Freedom Fighters.

“She deeply identifies herself with the ANC. Asking her to join the EFF is like asking her to let go of herself and who she truly is,” he told supporters outside the Polokwane High Court.

Malema failed earlier in the day to persuade the court to withdraw criminal charges against him.

Judge Ephraim Makgoba ruled that the case against him would go ahead next year as scheduled, unless the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges.

Malema loses court bid

Julius Malema, with red beret
Julius Malema, with red beret

The Polokwane High Court dismissed EFF leader Julius Malema’s application to have charges against him dropped on Thursday.

Judge Ephraim Makgoba said the case against him would go ahead next year as scheduled, unless the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges against him.

The expelled former ANC Youth League leader faces charges of fraud, corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering.

It is alleged that he made nearly R4 million from corrupt activities.

Earlier it was reported by Sapa that Dali Mpofu had arrived at the Polokwane High Court on Thursday to support corruption-accused EFF leader Julius Malema.

Sporting a red Economic Freedom Fighters beret, red shirt and black jacket, Mpofu joined other Malema supporters waiting near the court entrance for Malema to arrive.

Mpofu is the lawyer representing the wounded and arrested Marikana mineworkers at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the shooting at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg last year, when 34 people were killed.

He recently announced he had resigned from the African National Congress to join the EFF.

A large contingent of international and local journalists also gathered outside the court where Malema was due to launch a bid to have charges against him dropped.

Earlier on Thursday, hundreds of Economic Freedom Fighters members blew vuvuzelas and some waved knobkerries as they chanted songs against President Jacob Zuma.

“Muso wa Zuma reya o menola [we will unseat Zuma’s government],” they sang.

Traffic was bumper-to-bumper, with streets around the court closed.

The expelled former ANC Youth League leader faces charges of fraud, corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering.

It is alleged that he made nearly R4 million from corrupt activities.

Malema is out on R10,000 bail. His four co-accused, who are his business associates, are out on bail of R40,000 each.

On Thursday, the EFF leader was expected to make representations to the judge in an attempt to have the charges against him dropped.

The State alleges that the five misrepresented themselves to the Limpopo roads and transport department, leading to a R52m contract being awarded to On-Point Engineering.

According to court papers, Malema had business ties with Lesiba Gwangwa, one of the co-accused and a director of On-Point Engineering.

Malema’s Ratanang Family Trust was an indirect shareholder in On-Point.

The department paid the company R43m. According to the charge sheet, Malema substantially benefited from this payment, using it to buy a farm and a Mercedes-Benz. – Sapa

Red sea of supporters gather to support Malema before court appearance

EFF supporters
EFF supporters

Hundreds of EFF members gathered in the Polokwane police station foyer on Thursday to support their leader Julius Malema ahead of his court bid to have the charges against him dropped.

Malema’s supporters held placards and banners indicating which regions of the Economic Freedom Fighters they came from.

They also blew vuvuzelas and some waved knobkerries as they chanted songs against President Jacob Zuma.

“Muso wa Zuma reya o menola”, meaning “we will unseat Zuma’s government”, they sang.

Traffic was bumper to bumper, with streets around the court closed ahead of Malema’s appearance in the Polokwane Circuit of the High Court in Pretoria.

The expelled ANC Youth League president faces charges of fraud, corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering.

It is alleged that he made nearly R4 million from corrupt activities.

Malema is out on R10,000 bail. His four co-accused, who are his business associates, are out on bail of R40,000 each.

On Thursday, the EFF leader is expected to make representations to the judge in an attempt to have the charges against him dropped.

The State alleges that the five misrepresented themselves to the Limpopo roads and transport department, leading to a R52m contract being awarded to On-Point Engineering.

According to court papers, Malema had business ties with Lesiba Gwangwa, one of the co-accused and a director of On-Point Engineering.

Malema’s Ratanang Family Trust was an indirect shareholder in On-Point.

The department paid the company R43m. According to the charge sheet, Malema substantially benefited from this payment, using it to buy a farm and a Mercedes-Benz.

If the charges are not dropped, Malema’s trial would be heard from September 30 to October 31 next year. – Sapa

EFF berets in high demand

Julius Malema with beret
Julius Malema with beret

The Economic Freedom Fighters has started running out of stock of its signature red berets, City Press reported on Sunday.

Berets were even being snatched off members’ heads as support for Julius Malema’s party swelled, according to the newspaper.

It reported that EFF members could be seen wearing the red berets on street corners, public places, hangout spots and even at funerals, where they were recruiting new members.

One of its leaders, Andile Mngxitama was quoted as saying: “We are replacing money with people. Wherever we go, there is excitement that is generated.

“If you wear a red beret, you get stopped every other second. It doesn’t happen if you wear an ANC or Agang T-shirt.”

He told the newspaper that demand for the red berets “generally exceeds supply”.

Northern Cape co-ordinator Mbuyiselo April complained that the province’s stock had run out.

North West provincial convenor Alfred Mutsi said berets were being stolen from people’s heads.

“When we can’t give people berets, they just grab them off our heads and run away,” he was quoted as saying. – Sapa

EFF accused of ‘hijacking’ Mooiplaas protest

EFFLogo1The Economic Freedom Fighters was accused of hijacking a march to the Union Buildings by residents of the Mooiplaas settlement, west of Pretoria, on Thursday.

“You are ruining our march. This is not a political party-led event,” said Emely Morongwe.

The residents were presenting service delivery demands to the presidency.

When community leaders were called to hand over the memorandum, EFF members complained about being left out. They pushed each other, and shouted insults at the police.

“You are allowing in whites. This is not a white man’s march,” one of them shouted when the police unlocked a gate to let in a journalist.

Agang SA member Makgoka Lekganyane was booed when he tried to restore order. He was one of three people allowed through the gate to hand over the memorandum, in which residents gave the government 18 days to respond to their demands for water, electricity, and houses.

“Who are you to tell us? You have been paid to interrupt our march… Our leaders are not there,” a man shouted at the EFF group.

The EFF members retreated to the back of the gathering, where they held a meeting. They sang while local EFF leader Peter Motherland read the memorandum.

“You are disturbing us. This is for the community not for you,” shouted a woman.

The EFF protesters, most of them wearing the party’s red T-shirts and berets, arrived at the Union Buildings singing songs in praise of their leader Julius Malema.

“Re suteleng re ya ya, Malema o e tla [Get out of the way we are coming, Malema is coming],” they sang, blowing vuvuzelas as they walked across the Union Buildings’ lawns.

Some carried placard reading: “Juju my commander all the way.”

After the memorandum was handed over, the EFF supporters continued to sing liberation songs. – Sapa

Shots fired at protesters at Union Buildings

The Apartheid Museum reminds visitors daily why violence pays
The Apartheid Museum reminds visitors daily why violence pays

Shots were fired at protesters at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, police said.

“A shooting did take place at the Union Buildings where some people were injured,” said police spokesperson Tsekiso Mofokeng.

No further details were immediately available.

Mofokeng was responding to a statement by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng condemning “the shooting of Mooiplaas Community, who were in a process of a peaceful demonstration in Union Building [sic]”.

“Four of the EFF members are arrested while others shot and injured are in hospital,” said Gauteng spokesperson Patrick Sindane.

Mofokeng said he would have more information later in the afternoon. – Sapa

The Mother of the Nation kisses up to Juju

Winnie liberated SA with necklace murders
Winnie ‘liberated’ SA with necklace murders

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has warned that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s support of expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema is a danger to the party, it was reported.

“What she is doing is dangerous for the organisation,” Mantashe was quoted by as saying the Sowetan.

“She has taken a decision to go against the ANC national executive committee’s [position] on Julius.”

Mantashe said Madikizela-Mandela’s decision to support Malema was “ill-disciplined”.

Earlier this week, the Sowetan reported that Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, had told Malema in Nqgeleni in the Eastern Cape that his efforts to economically liberate the country had been noticed.

She accompanied Malema, suspended ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu, the league’s suspended secretary general Sindiso Magaqa, and her daughter Zindzi, to the official opening of rooms at a child care centre, as part of celebrating Mandela’s birthday on Wednesday.

Paying for non-support of 'freedom'
Paying for non-support of ‘freedom’

Madikizela-Mandela referred to Malema as her grandson.

“Thank you very much for making us see in our lifetime that it is possible to liberate our people economically and better their lives.

“Thank you very much for leading that [economic freedom] campaign, because it is as [a] result of your emphasis, the youth league’s emphasis on the role we should be playing as freedom fighters,” she reportedly said. – Sapa

Diepsloot vows to vote for Malema’s EFF because of crime

Diepsloot
Diepsloot, a black township north of Johannesburg.

Some Diepsloot residents angered by the killing of two children vowed on Friday to vote for the Economic Freedom Fighters in general elections next year.

“In other countries if you kill you get killed, but in South Africa you are awarded with a comfortable life in prison. You eat healthy food and you have a television,” said Reneilwe Mokwena, 34, a mother of four.

Another mother, Darksha Fenyane, 36, said the two of them would be voting for the EFF, saying President Jacob Zuma had let them down.

“We voted for him not knowing he is like this. He must not come here because we will hurt him,” said Fenyane.

The bodies of two-year-old Yonelisa Mali and her cousin Zandile Mali, three, were found on Tuesday. They were reported missing at the weekend.

Four men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of rape and murder. The case was postponed to Thursday for the men to apply for Legal Aid.

A fifth man, who was arrested early Friday morning in Alexandra, would appear in the court on Monday.

Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane urged Diepsloot residents to support the family of the two toddlers.

“This is something that must never happen to anybody’s child,” she said outside the family’s home in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg.

She said police received information which helped them make the arrests.

“What has happened today [Friday] in Diepsloot is a demonstration that community and police relationship are very important. Their partnership can go a long way.

“Now that the suspect has been arrested let’s all rally behind the family give them the necessary support. Give the mothers space to grieve the loss of their children so that they can find closure.”

She told reporters the family was thankful and looking forward to a swift prosecution of the perpetrators.

Earlier, residents gathered outside the police station to protest about the murders. They demanded that police release the fifth man so they could burn him.

Police were in the area as Economic Freedom Fighters supporters and African National Congress supporters clashed. EFF supporters accused ANC supporters of beating them. – Sapa

ANC and EFF supporters clash in Diepsloot

EFFLogo1Economic Freedom Fighters supporters accused ANC supporters of beating them up in Diepsloot on Friday.

Residents supporting the EFF stood outside the Diepsloot police station but were not allowed in.

They complained about being shut out saying the police were supposed to provide a place of safety.

Residents refused to speak to the media. However, one EFF supporter said he planned to open a case with the police.

Earlier, angry Diepsloot residents gathered outside the local police station protesting about the murder of two toddlers.

They demanded that police release to them a fifth man arrested earlier in the day so they could burn him.

The bodies of two-year-old Yonelisa Mali and her cousin Zandile Mali, three, were found on Tuesday. They were reported missing at the weekend.

Four men are expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of rape and murder.

There was a heavy police presence in the area.

The African National Congress Youth League marched to the police station to hand over a memorandum.

“We raised a lot of grievances that we have as a community here in Diepsloot on issues of crime and drugs,” ANCYL national task team co-ordinator Mzwandile Masina said after handing over the memorandum.

“Now we want to work with the community to ensure there’s peace in the area. We want visible policing at all times.”

Residents supporting the ANC and those supporting Julius Malema’s EFF clashed in the streets.

EFF supporters in red berets sang songs mocking President Jacob Zuma.

“If you are a person who is voting for Zuma you are not to be trusted,” they sang in Sesotho.

Some residents ripped up ANC placards.

Others started banging on a car when they saw a person in an ANC T-shirt inside. Police intervened. – Sapa