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.
