Young reds in spat over Mbeki genocide debate
NONI MOKATI
JOHANNESBURG - The Young Communist League (YCL) has refused to back down on its call for former President Thabo Mbeki and former Health Minister Manto Tshabalala- Msimang to be charged with genocide.
The YCL call prompted ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema to spring to Mbeki’s defence.
Speaking on the eve of the YCL’s four-day political school yesterday, national secretary Buti Manamela said the South African Communist Party’s youth wing was shocked at Malema’s response that people who wanted Mbeki charged should leave the league.
“If we suggest that we can’t prosecute Mbeki because he is one of our own, what lessons are we setting?”
Democratic Alliance youth leader Khume Ramulifho said the ANCYL and YCL had to stop arguing about what was an “impossible objective” and get on with delivering anti-retrovirals to people who needed them.
Lyrics of song quoted out of context: ANC
JOHANNESBURG - The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) yesterday broke its silence on what it described as “silly noise” about a controversial struggle song chanted by its leader Julius Malema.
Malema shoot me instead of defenceless farmers: Geldenhuys
CAPE TOWN - The national secretary of the Verkenners Beweging (scouts' movement) Ben Geldenhuys has challenged ANC youth league leader Julius Malema to “shoot me” instead of innocent farmers, and even named a place, date, and time for the event.
Malema's utterances may promote racial polarisation
JOHANNESBURG - ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s recent utterances could create racial polarisation in South Africa, said the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) on Thursday.
Out of control
One of the ANC’s spokesmen, Jackson Mthembu, says Julius Malema’s singing of the “Kill the Boer” chant was the fault of the ANC.
Subtext to Malema’s agenda is pure anarchy
Cedric Mboyisa, you’ve just dug your own grave. When Juju becomes President you will be the first to face the music.
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