The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but turn they do. Today the Equality Court in Johannesburg found Julius Malema guilty of hate speech and harassment for comments made regarding President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser over a year ago:
The Johannesburg Equality Court on Monday found ANC Youth League president Julius Malema guilty of hate speech and harassment.
“This court is satisfied that the utterances by the respondent… amounted to hate speech,” said magistrate Colleen Collis.
“The uttered words constitute harassment as contemplated in the Equality Act.”
Malema has to issue an apology – something he’s previously sworn never to do – and pay a fine. We look forward to bringing you his response to the judgment, as and when he sees fit to issue it…
ANCYL darling Julius Malema is in the hot seat again – this time for purportedly failing to submit his tax returns, two years running. Malema’s lawyer, Tumi Mokwena, predictably is taking the stance that it was unethical for the media to report on the issue. And in other news – Malema recently accused Helen Zille of “suffering” from Satanism after churches were demolished in Kayelitsha and declared that Jacob Zuma will definitely enjoy a second term as President. Read on for more Malema madness. You can also get a closer look into Julius’ mind with The World According to Julius Malema by Max du Preez and Mandy Rossouw:
The lawyer of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has accused an SA Revenue Service (Sars) employee – who revealed that Malema has not submitted his tax returns in two years – of “unethical” behaviour.
Malema’s attorney, Tumi Mokwena, said yesterday: “It’s very unethical for any Sars member to divulge any information about someone to the media.”
City Press yesterday reported that four companies, of which Malema is a registered director and shareholder, were not “tax compliant”.
Die pen (of dalk eerder die sleutelbord) van skrywer Herman Giliomee was onlangs weer druk besig met die skryf van briewe aan sy dogter Adrienne wat in London bly. Die brief is in Beeld gepubliseer as ‘n uittreksel uit Kroniek – ‘n manuskrip in wording – volgens Giliomee. Die skrywer het bekendheid verwerf met Die Afrikaners: ‘n Biografie.
Ons het Vrydagaand ’n wonderlike ervaring gehad.
In November verlede jaar was ek in kontak met Athol Fugard in die VSA oor sy woorde op die voorblad van die tweede uitgawe van my boek The Afrikaners , wat pas verskyn het.
Hy nooi ons toe uit na die opening van die nuwe Fugard-teater, ’n ou pakhuis op die rand van die ou Distrik Ses wat in ’n teater omskep is.
Never one for shying away from controversy or the men and women of SA who bring it daily to our doorstep, 702 Talk Radio’s Redi Direko recently brought ANCYL leader Julius Malema on to her show for a grilling, asking him uncomfortable questions about tenderpreneurship. Their conversation has just been posted online, and makes for a must-listen – though you may want to pace yourself!
Julius Malema can out-mouth just about anybody, it seems. Certainly, no one has driven the news media’s daily and weekly cycles with such sheer verbiage in quite a long while. Here are the main Malema stories from the weekend (along with two new Malema-inspired Zapiro cartoons, above):
Malema pranked on Twitter
The South African Twitter community was buzzing this week with the news that ANC Youth League President Julius Malema had taken to the popular micro-blogging service.
But the accounts have turned out to be fakes.
There are two accounts listed in the name of Julius Malema on Twitter. The first, @JuliusMalema, was created in October last year, with the latest update stating: “All claims that I’m not the real Malema are false. Imperialist propaganda by the journalists.”
ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema on Sunday said a newspaper reporter faked his signature to portray him as a bad person.
“We will not be broken by newspapers. They just put my name to sell newspapers. The journalist faked my signature because they want to portray me as a bad person,” said Malema in Durban’s Wema.
He was addressing members of the ANCYL during the 2011 local elections mobilisation rally.
The racist notion that the progress of black youth in the post-democratic dispensation was automatically a consequence of corruption must be confronted, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Saturday.
Malema said certain “revelations” had come to light “in the process of engaging the entire discourse of media conducted lifestyle audits”.
“First is the racist notion and supposition expressed by both black and white people that the success and progress of black youth in the post democratic dispensation is automatically a consequence of corruption. This notion should be openly confronted and exposed as it has potential to undermine our hard won freedom to participate actively in the economy,” Malema wrote in an opinion article published by City Press.
In a follow up to our earlier piece today on the recent media frenzy over Malema’s bling lifestyle, we bring you the transcript of his speech in defense of same. Could it be that his funding actually comes from opposition parties in SA – for certainly their support bases grow at times like these?
The African National Congress Youth League has noted various media reports about our militant, fighting, radical and forever disciplined youth organisation. Under normal circumstances, we were not going to dignify the misrepresentations and lies spread through Newspapers, but because some of the sentiments spread have potential to undermine our integrity as leadership of young people in South Africa, we have to clarify. We have to clarify these allegations particularly to ANC Youth League members and supporters of the ANC so that they are not fed wrong, misleading and damaging information by the Newspapers.
South Africa’s most quotable politician took a shellacking in the press at the weekend, with no fewer than three Sunday papers “auditing” his lavish lifestyle and probing the source of his income. Is Malema a so-called tenderpreneur? As the evidence mounts, “the mouth” may start to feel the pressure. Here’s TimesLive’s follow-up report:
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille wants a probe into whether ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has paid his taxes.
But Youth League structures in three provinces yesterday came out in full support of the embattled Malema – accusing the media of working in cahoots with his political foes.
De Lille made the call for a South African Revenue Service investigation into Malema’s tax affairs following revelations by the Sunday Times yesterday that the youth leader’s expensive lifestyle is partly funded by lucrative business tenders given to his companies.
It’s the summer of 2010 and things are moving along nicely: the soccer stadiums have gone up (mostly), George has had some rain (a little), Zuma got married (again), and, well, and Julius Malema remains Julius Malema. Mandy Rossouw and Max du Preez might have to publish an updated version of their The World According to Julius Malema soon at the rate this young politico issues quoteworthy utterances.
Here are the latest Malema reactions in the press, courtesy TimesLIVE:
Seething Malema steps up war on SACP foes
The standoff between the SACP and the ANCYL was evident in the stands, where some carried professionally printed banners saying “Hands off our youth league president Julius Malema” and SACP supporters waved their own banners.
One alliance leader told the Sunday Times that the SACP display was “tantamount to hijacking a very special moment” of the ANC.
Zuma cites the ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema, as a future ANC leader who will help us grapple with and solve these gargantuan problems. On Saturday, after repeated calls by Zuma and others for name-calling and public spats in the ANC alliance to stop, Malema stood up in Kimberley and defied those calls. He claimed that his comrades on the left went to Zuma’s homes and lied about him.
The biggest crisis facing the youth league (a generation of young people failed by the system) was not addressed by the so-called future leader. Instead, narrow political battles unlikely to benefit anyone except a coterie of ANC leaders were uppermost in his mind.
Writing in The Daily Maverick, EWN reporter Stephen Grootes thinks Julius “the mouth” Malema might have bitten off more than he can chew:
He’s spent the last 12 months talking the talk. Now he may find that, politically speaking, he’ll be asked if he can walk the walk. That’s because shooting your mouth off is pretty easy. Especially if it’s about things that aren’t really politically important, such as Caster Semenya. But Malema has not started picking on some of the biggest political fish, and 2010 could be the year the empire strikes back.
Gwede Mantashe is not going to let him simply run over him without a fight. And the battle ground could well turn out to be economic policy. Well, perhaps not precisely, but it’s dressed up as economic policy. In reality, it is more and more a fight over resources; in other words, it’s about who gets the cash. That makes a mockery of Malema’s claims that it’s really about the nationalisation of mines and fulfilling the Freedom Charter’s demands. As more people come to realise this, so their contempt for what he says could harden into something else. There will be those who have ignored him until now, but they may start to feel that he’s actually becoming a threat to what the ANC stands for, and that “something must be done”. That puts him on a collision course with Gwede Mantashe, and perhaps some of the other top brass within the party.
For those who were out of town when the final Sunday Times of 2009 hit their doorsteps, Julius Malema beat out the likes of Robert Mugabe to win the newspaper’s top annual anti-accolade:
There was a burp. A very loud burp. By now the citizens of the province of Youthigia knew what this meant. The ever-conquering leader, whose words drip like dribble down the chin, was about to speak.
So they ran off to the Green Hill, a tall mound of Heineken cans, the Youthigians’ beverage of choice, which had been set up as the royal court. This was where the great one would put forth his wisdoms.
Once they had all gathered, there was another huge burp.
