Julius Malema has stated on record that he had resigned from the companies he had links to that were awarded huge government tenders. This was easily proved to be a lie by even the most casual search of CIPRO records where it was found that he was currently listed as a director for four companies including SGL Engineering Projects which is perhaps at the centre of the controversy. When cornered with these facts he went on to suggest that he had instructed his attorney to handle the process as well as suggesting that CIPRO records were not up to date.
City Press today reported that according to a company registration record, Malema owns 70 percent of shares in SGL Engineering Projects.He had also signed on as a director, signed to pass power of attorney to his business partner and signed a third time to take up his majority shareholding. Malema claimed he had deregistered from company directorship soon after being elected ANCYL president in Bloemfontein in April 2008.
Malema was in Wema, Durban today where he addressed members of the ANCYL during the 2011 local elections mobilisation rally. He claimed that a newspaper reporter faked his signature to portray him as a bad person and that newspaper reports about him were a campaign aimed at demoralising the youth league.
“If I have done something wrong President Jacob Zuma’s government has a right to arrest me. If I have something wrong I must be prosecuted,”. He further added that the countrie’s mines would be nationalised, saying that the youth league’s perspective would dominate the ANC elective conference in 2012.
