Racist hate-speech in South Africa but there is no coverage on the BBC

That's the South African President Jacob Zuma leading the singing of "Kill the Boer" at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012.
Note the lyrics enthusiastically sung and also note the man in the grey waistcoat next to President Zuma, the one doing the actions to illustrate the song's words. Long time readers of this blog may recognise him as Julius Malema the vile individual who was formerly Jacob Zuma's attack dog before rising to become President of the ANC Youth League. In November 2011 Julius Malema was found guilty of sowing divisions within the ANC and, in conjunction with his two-year suspended sentence in May 2010, was suspended from the party for five years. It looks as though Jacob Zuma is not afraid to be seen with this nasty piece of work.

In April 2010 I reported on Julius Malema's words when expelling a BBC reporter, Jonah Fisher, from a press conference for daring to comment on where Julius Malema lives - "You live in Sandtown"; he raised this point because Malema had just criticised the Movement for Democratic Change for having offices in affluent Sandton. To which Julius Malema replies:

"This is a building of the revolutionary party and you know nothing of the revolution... here you behave or else you jump(?).. can you get security to remove this thing(?)... don't come here with that white tendencies(?)... you are a small boy, you cannot do anything... go out, go out, bastard... you bloody agent... "

Read my previous articles on Julius Malema for more of a flavour of this person. Don't expect to see the video of this song on the BBC anytime soon though.

So who thought Mugabe could be trusted?

I learn from my Zimbabwean sources that Robert Mugabe is not happy with power sharing. His latest ploy is to have some of Morgan Tsvangirai's MPs arrested. So far 17 MDC MPs have been arrested and four have been convicted by the courts. The latest MDC politician to be arrested is deputy minister for youth, Tamsanqa Mahlangu, who has been arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone from a Mugabe "war veteran" at a conference a few weeks ago.

As I have said over and over again, Robert Mugabe will not relinquish his hold on power in Zimbabwe voluntarily and it is South Africa that holds the key to the solution. So long as the ANC led government in South Africa treat Robert Mugabe as a hero of the revolution, the longer the people of Zimbabwe will have to live under tyranny, fear and starvation. Unfortunately I do not expect Jacob Zuma to be any more intellectually or morally capable of dealing properly with Robert Mugabe than Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela were. I hate to break it to you but the ANC leaders of South Africa are no more moral and laudable than their predecessors from the National Party, they are just blacker.