Julius Malema : Puppetry and Politics

Malema warns ANC leadership

IdiotWatcher — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:14:13 +0000

Johannesburg – ANCYL president Julius Malema on Friday warned ANC leaders they could be removed at any time.

“You must be careful, you’ll be on the streets if you don’t respect the power of the masses,” he told delegates.

“Sometimes power makes you drunk.”

Leaders should not impress those in power, but rather strive to impress the masses on the ground.

He said leaders

Malema: ‘We’ll take the land, determine the price’

IdiotWatcher — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:01:30 +0000

Aug 27, 2010 10:31 AM | By Sapa

Landowners who refuse amounts offered during expropriation should have their land taken away with no payment, says ANC Youth League president Julius Malema. Current Font Size:

ANCYL leader Julius Malema. File Picture. Photograph by: MOEKETSI MOTICOE

“Willing seller, willing buyer is not working, [Black Economic Empowerment] is not working,” Malema told the

Malema must apologise, pay fine

IdiotWatcher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:38:38 +0000

Johannesburg – The 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.”

Collis ordered Malema to make an unconditional public

Malema and the R250m mining deal

IdiotWatcher — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:08:31 +0000

Youth League leader emerges as a lobbyist in lucrative empowerment deal Julius Malema – who has been driving a campaign to nationalise the country’s mines – has emerged as a key lobbyist in the controversial sale of a major state-owned mining asset.

The Sunday Times can today reveal that the government stake in Limpopo-based ASA Metals, valued at

ANC comes out in defense of Malema singing ‘Kill the boer’

IdiotWatcher — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:06:32 +0000

Johannesburg – The ANC defended youth leader Julius Malema on Thursday for singing, “shoot the boers, they are rapists”, saying the lyrics of the song had been quoted out of context.

“Let’s discuss appropriately on this matter. Don’t blame Julius. In fact, on this one, I will defend him,” ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu told Sapa by

AfriForum taking Malema to court

IdiotWatcher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:06:54 +0000

Civil rights group AfriForum’s youth division plans to hand a list of more than 1 600 farm attacks to the ANC Youth League at Luthuli House on Thursday.

AfriForum Youth’s National chairperson, Ernst Roets, said the movement would also submit a complaint against ANCYL president Julius Malema to the equality court, directly after handing the list

Malema charged over ‘kill the boer’

IdiotWatcher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:05:27 +0000

Johannesburg – ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is facing a barrage of complaints to the police and chapter nine institutions over his latest racial outburst, after he led students in singing “kill the boer”.

Freedom Front Plus leader and Deputy Agriculture Minister Pieter Mulder laid a criminal charge against Malema at the Brooklyn police station,

Arrest me, challenges Malema

IdiotWatcher — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52:09 +0000

Johannesburg – ANC Youth League president Julius Malema says if anyone could prove any wrongdoing against him, they should arrest him.

“I’m not above the law. If there is any crime I have committed I’m asking to be arrested,” he told students at the University of Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Malema reiterated previous statements that he has never

Blue Monday for Malema

IdiotWatcher — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:29:55 +0000

Monday the 1st of March 2010 is proving to be a very Blue Monday for ANCYL President Julius Malema. Last week the media started to dig up all kinds of interesting things about him like his involement in companies that are benefitting very handsomely from government tenders, his wealth and assets and his personal life.

Last week he also took a

Malema confuses Parking Fine with a compliment on his driving ability

IdiotWatcher — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:25:21 +0000

By Mercury Correspondents

As media scrutiny continued around Julius Malema yesterday, it appeared he no longer had a valid driver’s licence and that he also had several unpaid fines.

The Mercury has reliably learned, and confirmed, that Malema’s driver’s licence expired in September last year and has not been renewed.

It has also been established that the ANC Youth League