‘Stupid Malema out of line’
CEDRIC MBOYISA
JOHANNESBURG - The “racist and stupid” ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been accused of acting in a manner that is foreign to the culture of the ruling party.
“He is bringing the whole movement into disrepute.
“It is about time the ANC leadership called Malema to order,” South African Communist Party (SACP) Mpumalanga spokesman Lesetja Dikgale told The Citizen yesterday.
He added: “Other than being racist, Malema is stupid.”
Malema has incurred the wrath of communists after launching a scathing attack on SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin, sarcastically branding him a “white messiah” for challenging his call for nationalisation of mines.
Dikgale said Malema’s maturity was wanting, and that his outbursts were alienating certain tripartite alliance partners.
“He is moving away from the values of the movement,” he added.
He argued that Malema’s militancy was way out of line and that it could not be compared to that of former President Nelson Mandela during his youth.
In its hard-hitting response to Malema’s attack on Cronin, the SACP Mpumalanga expressed its full backing of Cronin, whom it described as “a tested revolutionary intellectual, whose contribution to our liberation cannot be equated to Malema’s opportunistic and stupid outbursts”.
The Malema onslaught continued: “Malema’s behaviour is disgracing such a dignified, powerful name of the ANCYL and we are not in shock by his ill-discipline.
“(After all) he was elected president of the ANCYL through a public display of buttocks, signalling anarchy and the worst form of ill-discipline.”