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.

Another step on the road to the Zimbabweisation of South Africa - 'expropriation with compensation determined by the state'

I read that the delightful Julius Malema has been warning white South African farmers again.

"It's a simple policy. We're going to take the land, but we'll compensate and we'll determine the price. We go to [Eugene] Terre'Blanche's farm and say: for these many hectares we will give you R2m, thank you very much.

"If you say that's too little and you don't want it, then we take the land and give you nothing. It's called expropriation with compensation determined by the state."

Is President Jacob Zuma willing or able to reign in Julius Malema? I doubt it for long and within 10 years I predict that white South African farmers will be facing the 'problems' that Zimbabwean farmers have for some years now. I further predict that just as the land-grab policies in Zimbabwe destroyed Zimbabwe's agricultural sector, so Julius Malema's policy will destroy South Africa's.

Julius Malema update

Julius Malema and his chauffeur were rolling down the highway when suddenly they hit a pig crossing the road. They killed it instantly.

Malema tells his driver:” Go to da farm over dere and hexplain to da howner of da pig what happen.”

One hour later, Malema sees his driver coming back from the farm, his clothes all wrinkled, a bottle of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other.

“What happen to you?” Malema asks.

“Well, the Boer farmer gave me a bottle of wine, beautiful plates of food, a cigar, beautiful 20 year old brandy, coffee biscuits and cheese and their 19 year old domestic servant made wild passionate love to me.”

“My My ! What did you tell dem?” asked Malema.

The driver answered: ” Good evening, I am Julius Malema’s chauffeur and I have just killed the pig.”

Julius Malema shows his class again

IOL report that Julius Malema has been showing his class again:

'Julius Malema seems to have blown it. Yesterday the ANC Youth League leader had another tantrum, this time in Limpopo, where he clouted a party rival with a chair and threw journalists out of a chaotic youth league conference.

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According to rivals, Malema threw youth league Limpopo chairman Lehlohonolo Masoga out of the conference and dissolved the provincial executive committee. Masoga could not be reached for comment later.

But Malema said the provincial executive committee had dissolved itself and that Masoga and his group had "gone to ground" and were not ejected.

And he confirmed that his national leadership had taken over the conference.

During the conference one of the delegates from the rival group went up to Malema and taunted him, prompting the youth league leader - who had just arrived at the registration hall - to pick up a chair and hit him. This is when the fighting broke out. As chaos erupted in the hall, Malema gave orders to throw out the media.

Referring to the incident later, Malema said he had merely chased the delegate because he wanted to reprimand him for dancing on top of a table.

At the conference, members of a group opposed to Malema's choice of provincial chairperson chanted "Malema, we don't want your agenda" and "No to tenders committee" - an implication that the youth leader has amassed wealth through government tenders.'

Classy guy?

Julius Malema and the BBC

Saturday's Telegraph had a very interesting article about 'The man playing South Africa's death card' and described the tactics being used by Julius Malema to stir up trouble in South Africa. It's a chilling piece to anyone who sees South Africa as a still salvageable country. Here are some extracts:

'Malema was in Harare, feasting with Robert Mugabe and picking up tips on how best to destroy the teetering remnants of Western influence here in South Africa. Terreblanche's murder was an individual tragedy. Malema's actions threaten to destroy an entire subcontinent.

Julius Malema is a chubby man-child who rose to prominence as Jacob Zuma's attack dog, threatening violence against anyone who sought to block the Zulu patriarch's rise to the state presidency. When Zuma emerged triumphant, Malema found himself in the pound seats. A poorly educated 28-year-old, he mysteriously acquired two posh houses, a fleet of cars and an obscenely expensive Breitling watch – curious accessories for a man who positions himself as champion of the poor.

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...he picked a fight with cabinet minister Jeremy Cronin, South Africa's most visible white Communist, who had dared to opine that his enthusiasm for nationalisation had much to do with a fondness for bling and nothing to do with the plight of the poor. In response, Malema reportedly sent Cronin a threatening SMS: "Wait to see what's coming to you."

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On his trip to Harare, Malema was met at the airport by a clutch of notorious profiteers whose connection to the great dictator enabled them to grow rich even as their country died. These "vultures" are said to be slavering at the prospect of another killing as Mugabe moves to dismember Zimbabwe's last surviving businesses and mines in the name of "indigenisation".

By all accounts, Malema was thrilled to make their acquaintance. They organised a crowd to sing his controversial song about shooting Boers. Then they whisked him off in a presidential Mercedes Benz and put him up in Harare's most expensive hotel. In return, Malema expressed his unqualified admiration for the policies that have ruined Zimbabwe and vowed to press for their adoption south of the Limpopo River.

"In South Africa, we are just starting," said Malema. "Here you are already very far. We are very happy today that you can account for more than 300,000 new farmers, against the 4,000 who used to dominate agriculture. We hear you are now going straight to the mines. That's what we are going to be doing in South Africa. We want the mines. They have been exploiting our minerals for a long time. Now it's our turn also to enjoy from those minerals…"

On Thursday, Malema reiterated these sentiments at a press conference marked by an ugly racial attack on a BBC reporter. There has been no repudiation. The silence says something truly ominous: Malema has protection. Someone in the ANC – either the president himself, or an awesomely powerful faction inside the party – is encouraging him to rally the masses for a Zimbabwe-style obliteration of Africa's only viable economy and last surviving hope.


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If you ask me, Malema is the point-man for a powerful ANC faction whose motive is greed and whose chosen weapon is racial demagoguery of the most primitive kind.

The trouble is that this card trumps all others. Our underclass is huge, poorly educated and desperately poor. They know what happened in Zimbabwe, but even so, the prospect of loot is irresistible, and that's Malema's bait. Mandela gave them free houses. Mbeki gave them welfare grants, leading to a situation where five million taxpayers support 13 million indigents, with the total rising far more rapidly than our ability to pay. Now Malema and the faceless vultures behind him are offering them the rest. They are playing the death card, the Ace of Spades. '

Meanwhile how are the BBC reporting the Julius Malema's verbal attack on one of their own reporters? The answer is obvious, not at all. You see after years of chanting "Free Nelson Mandela" in the 1980s and worshipping the 'living saint' that is Nelson Mandela in the 1990s the BBC still see the ANC as freedom fighters and the rightful rulers of South Africa. Thus the humiliation of one of their own interviewers by an ANC chief is just not worth mentioning. The BBC would far rather exult at the savage murder of Eugene Terreblanche as Omid Djalili and another did recently.

South Africa could be going down the same violent route as Zimbabwe and the BBC will not realise or report this until it is way too late. If you are a white South African farmer, then my advice is get out now. If you are a white South African mine owner or manager, then my advice is get out now. If you are a white South African business man, then my advice is start planning your escape. Finally if you are a white South African property owner, you may want to consider planning your exit for climes that may be less warm but somewhat safer; may I recommend the Mediterranean.

Freedom of speech in South Africa, what the BBC won't report even though it affected their reporter

That is Julius Malema, leader of the ANC's Youth League, 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... "

So far The Telegraph and The Guardian have covered this story but the BBC seem less keen even though it was one of their journalists that was expelled form the press conference. Somehow I think that if a black BBC journalist had been expelled from an Afrikaaner's press conference and was told "don't come here with that black tendencies" that it would be headline BBC news.

The Guardian have managed to decipher more of Julius Malema's rantings than I could, do take a read of their article. Here's a part that I missed: "You can go out. Rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser. That is rubbish. You are a small boy, you can't do anything.".

Julius Malema seems like he's learnt a lot from his trip to Zimbabwe, mainly how to use paranoia about 'agents' and conspiracies to justify any actions. If I were Jonah Fisher I would worry about what might happen to him, Julius Malema does not like criticism and won't enjoy the publicity this action has brought him.


His Wikipedia entry includes soem interesting facts: 'His school career was undistinguished and he failed two high school grades as well as several subjects in his final secondary school examination. His highest mark attained at school was reported as a "C" for second language English and his lowest marks were published as an "H" (sub 25%) in maths and a "G" (sub 20%) in woodwork, all in the standard grade.'

'In February 2010 Malema came under fire for alleged intervening in government tenders in the Limpopo province; see below. Malema is currently a director in a number of companies that was awarded these tenders. Malema denies these allegations, but is still listed as a director in all these companies. He is especially under fire for his lavish lifestyle, where he drives a number of expensive cars, and lives in a expensive house in Sandton. When questioned about his lavish lifestyle, he blames the allegations on racism in South Africa, and that white people do not want to see black people succeed in SA. When asked about his Mercedes Benz C63 AMG, he says "its nothing compared to what white kids drive on Sundays".

Malema has recently been criticised for not paying any personal taxes nor business taxes for his four registered companies for the two years since his election as the president of the ANCYL. He is apparently being investigated by a senior team within the South African Revenue Service.'