Comments on: The Juju joyride…

By: Gentlefurry

Gentlefurry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:53:57 +0000

There is a serious lack of credible and sincere leadership in our country if not the whole of Africa.
The issue of Nationalisation is a burning one that does not need a compromised Populist who can’t tell his mouths from his backside.His brain will explode .But then We have communists who rock to meetings driving AMGs.WE are so totally screwed.Large corporations will continue to exploit our resources.Far-away countries will own us in our own land.I have mixed feelings of tragedy and hope when I think of Zimbabwe.In a world controlled by Ruthless Emperials, devided as Africans we stand no chance.Is it a coincidence that The President was invited by the Queen when The Puppet that is Malema was screaming Nationalisation.Yes;He might be controlled by an Interest group in the
ANC,the bigger picture is that we are still economically enslaved.I dream of a day that a true African Leader who loves his People comes.Currently we are not focusing but are like crabs struggling to climb out of a bucket=Hypocricy and double standards.Every man for himself God for us all!Why are the small political parties not bonding to form 1 cohesive unit against the Giant that is the ANC? Interest groups.Time will come when conscience shall dawn that even Old Magogos will not cast emotive votes no matter how many packets of boerewors they get.Viva freedom!Long live Humanity!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:55:14 +0000

Good points from Obzino Latino. I was also at the UJ address. It was not just the white afrikaner journo who cried that got to me, it was more the way the students were shook to see a man so derided make so much sense on a subject that many pretend to know.

Malema himself always says that when it comes to debating, they cant touch him. That is why all we ever read about is the “lies” from City press, M&G and Sunday Times

By: Fani Dingiswayo

Fani Dingiswayo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:11:30 +0000

The Honourable President accepts that Mr Malema is a firebrand and that he is doing what Mr Mandela was doing in the 1950s, now that’s very worrying coming from the leader of a party that is in power. It says that this party probably does not understand the difference between the politics of being in power in 2010 (being in power for more than 15 years) and the politics of a time when the then ruling party required firebrands like Mandela to get a whisper of the message. I cannot say that I know Mr Malema well but the little that I have learnt about him is worrying (including the comparison drawn by the Honourable President between him and the young firebrand that Mr Mandela was in the 1950s)

… and, yes, like any good politician, he is reported as having said something sensible at one or other time, I don’t think that that elevates him to a position of a good leader. The comparison with the conduct of someone at the prime of apartheid and someone who belongs to a party that has ruled this country for 15 years, questions whether the party intends growing from resistance to power.

This is not a personal attack, it only seeks to ask whether we should celebrate a youth leader in 2010 who is said to be politicking like youth leaders in the 1950s

By: Panchetta

Panchetta — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:43:47 +0000

The ANC Youth league is a misnomer and have strayed from the ANC of old, just as the current ANC has done. In any case these structures within the ANC were great appendages as wheels of the ANC liberation movement, but are no longer relevant.

What we have now is seperate political movements all sharing a piece of the ANC brand. The so-called tripartite alliance is a case in point.

The ANC Youth League is far right to the ANC and behaves much like the PAC when they had a bit of balls. If they were to take their outlandish and childish ‘policies’ to the elections as an indepedent political party, they would no doubt end up the same way.

The real pretender is the ANC who gather all to their bosem so that they can remain in power. The leaders of these leaguesw and unions get their piece of the pie.

By: Mondavo_H

Mondavo_H — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:55:07 +0000

@KAGISO if this is thought provoking; then why do you have a problem thinking, lol bro no disrespect meant in any way, but surely you can understand what the author is getting at.

By: s pillay

s pillay — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:18:13 +0000

“Those who see him as a risk to their material interests are going to leave no stone unturned in both ‘exposing’ his follies and making sure he goes down”

I disagree. But I’m glad ‘exposing’ was put in inverted commas, because it’s not journalists who are exposing his follies — Julius is doing a wonderful job of exposing his own dim-wittedness in virtually every public statement he makes.

And Obzino: Just because a racist, immature “leader” makes the occasional good speech is no reason to suddenly honour him as a “highly advanced young man who approaches politics with less complexities”. Your post exposes the very contradiction about Julius Malema: that he is NOT an advanced young man, but on the rare occasion where he does make sense, we are so shocked and bewildered that we suddenly sing his praises and rethink our opinions about him. Ag, please!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:46 +0000

OK Obzino, so what did the lyrics say? I hope this is not about semantics?

By: Mark Robertson

Mark Robertson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:18:16 +0000

There are great leaders and despicable people of all races. Heroism and villainy are equally distributed. If Mr Memela’s article was attacking the leadership or Barack Obama or the business acumen of Phutuma Nhleko, possibly Siphiwo Siphiwo’s response would make sense. As it is, defending someone who is less than a great leader is the equivalent of a rugby stadium of white people cheering Jimmy Abbott (a hooligan and a barbarian) as a hero, which praise the Lord has never happened and I hope will never happen. The message of the blog is a good one – great black leaders – like those I mentioned – are great because they are great. They are more than proof that the same standards of leadership should be applied to all – not a highly lowered standard in the interests of racial solidarity.

By: Obzino Latino

Obzino Latino — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:48 +0000

At least you have tried to be a bit objective. Look Malema is a great leader in making, I personally used to go by what the media, particularly the print media says about him. This led me to get irritated about him, thinking he is a dull amongs dulls. Not untill I listened to him politiking, did I ever looked up to him as a highly advanced young man who approach politics with less complexities.

I was there at University of Johanesburg where it is alleged he was inciting blacks to kill boers and qaoted as having sung “Kill the Boers, they are rapists”.

I can confirm to you that, like many students who came to listen to him, journerlists included, everybody was moved by his logic on unity of the progressive student movement, life style audit, nationalisation and why he is being attacked. One afrikaaner journerlist was so hurt with the harsh logic behind Malema’s adress on issues she could not hold back her tears. Black journerlist were also exposed to the delight of students. At the end of the day, journerlist had nothing bad to write about Malema except concentrating on twisting the songs lyrics. I can confirm that they probably did so out of frustration – hence I challenge all to retrieve the lyrics where Malema says “boers are rapists”, its all desperate lies. Becuase you a bit of a rational writer, go and investigate if it is true that Malema’s lyrics talked about rapists

By: PeterH

PeterH — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:58 +0000

“Youth leaders must be an example of all that is good, admirable and, above all, people of integrity.”

I guess the problem is that a lot of the youth thinks that Mr Malema *is* an example of all that is good and admirable.

What shall we do about that, Mr ANC Man?