After all, it was a BBC journalist who was the victim of Malema’s vituperation at the  ANC headquarters in Johannesburg two years ago.

  “Don’t come here with that white tendency .... go out bastard, you bloody agent”, Malema said  on a video clip that went viral.

If the idea of him trekking to the UK to put his case  seems odd, so too does his current attitude to whites in sport.

When Caster Semenya returned from Berlin after a controversial 800m win at the 2009 World Championships, Malema led a rowdy reception for her at  OR Tambo International  Airport.

  “Where are the whites?” he demanded to know.

Now he tells SkyNews  that sport is not an issue of colour.

No one could accuse the former ANC Youth League president of being consistent. But it is on his views about investment that he most stretches credulity.

The rabble-rousing champion of nationalisation mustn’t imagine he  is persuasive.