According to the Daily Maverick, a Johannesburg website, expelled ANC Youth leader Julius Malema is still campaigning hard in his home province of Limpopo.<\/p>\n
Greg Nicolson writes that Malema gave whites a lashing over their continued ownership of farmland. \u201cWe don\u2019t owe them fuck,\u201d Malema added, assumingly referring to expropriating land from white people without compensation. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to kill you\u2026 not because we are scared (but) because we like peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the delegates at the ANC\u2019s national policy conference returned to their respective provinces, Mondli Makhanya, editor-in-chief at Avusa, noted a change in the president Jacob Zuma’s demeanor.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefeat in the second transition debate was no small loss for the president. It was a very clear indicator of his precarious hold on power. That is why the president is mimicking Julius Malema and trying to occupy the militant space that the former youth league leader once occupied,\u201d wrote<\/a> Makhanya.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the more unsure he becomes of his sway in the ANC, the more populist he will sound. Julius Malema will have returned. Older, but not wiser.\u201d<\/p>\n Zuma\u2019s legacy is corruption and immoral leadership that lacks personal respect, said Malema last night. He called on the crowded hall to \u201csave the ANC\u201d from the \u201ccrisis\u201d that would engulf the party if Zuma led until 2019.<\/p>\n Under Zuma the ANC will take less than 50% of the vote in 2014, said Malema. He referred to Zuma’s dictum that the ANC “would rule until Jesus came”, while the Democratic Alliance already governs the Western Cape. \u201cThis is an example of misleading leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He gave the president a lesson in populist rhetoric. \u201cYou will never know what land is until you own it\u2026 There are no rich people without land. Land is everything. Land is the purpose the ANC was formed. It wasn\u2019t for VIPs,\u201d proclaimed Juju.<\/p>\n Malema was riding on the confidence that followed last week\u2019s conference. Zuma was dealt a psychological blow when the title of the second transition document was rejected, supporters sung for Kgalema Motlanthe and ANC delegates reportedly came to blows over nationalisation.<\/p>\n But the expelled youth league radical didn\u2019t stop at leadership or policy issues. He engaged in a personal tirade against Zuma and ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu.<\/p>\n Malema asked what right Zuma had to discipline the Youth League while it\u2019s public knowledge that the president slept with a friend\u2019s daughter. He suggested that when Zuma looked at the children of his friends, he didn\u2019t see children, but different opportunities.<\/p>\n In front of the enthusiastic crowd, he said Zuma\u2019s second transition document was rejected at the policy conference, but that he wouldn\u2019t know, because he\u2019s always sleeping.<\/p>\n Malema also launched an attack on Jackson Mthembu, the ANC’s spokesman. He referred to him as a drunk and his son as a drug addict. Mthembu has publicly spoken about his son’s addiction.<\/p>\n Why does Malema still get so much publicity if he is no longer a member of the ruling party?\u00a0 \u201cSo Julius had views, how did they get in the paper? Whether he is relevant or not, it appears the media decided that they want to make him relevant,\u201d said political analyst Ebrahim Fakir on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Greg Nicolson of Daily Maverick is of the opinion that last night’s speech was “Julius… unchained. By expelling the ANCYL leader the party let him loose, took away any control it had over him. If he were suspended he would need to toe the line for five years. But his only hope of returning to the party is through helping to topple Zuma and hoping for a reprieve post-Mangaung.”<\/p>\n Manguang, outside Bloemfontein, will host the party’s major conference in December this year, with the leadership struggle heating up in the run-up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Daily Maverick, a Johannesburg website, expelled ANC Youth leader Julius Malema is still campaigning hard in his home province of Limpopo. 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