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Malema – South Africa’s Own Chinotimba?

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Original Post Date: 2010-04-19 Time: 13:00:18  Posted By: News Poster

By Caiphas Chimhete and Vusumuzi Sifile

JULIUS Malema, South Africa’s African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president, is young, famous, rich and very presentable.

In appearance and stature, Malema definitely cannot be likened to Zimbabwe’s scruffy war veterans’ leader Joseph Chinotimba, the self-styled leader of violent land invasions in the country that resulted in the current economic meltdown.

But in deed the two have many things in common.

They both are rabble-rousers with very limited formal education.

Like Chinotimba, Malema also advocates for destructive populist economic policies and hides behind imperialist and racial rhetoric to push for political gains of his masters regardless of the consequences.

Malema’s recent utterances before and after his visit to Zimbabwe clearly showed that South African president Jacob Zuma might — by design or coincidence — be creating “a Chinotimba” in his country if he does not reign in the youth leader now.

Malema’s travel bill was footed by Zanu PF which wanted to use him in its drive to pacify the highly controversial land reform programme and economic empowerment policy requiring foreign firms to cede 51% of their shareholdings to indigenous black entrepreneurs.

And he did just that. He even falsely claimed South Africa would soon take the same route.

The 29-year-old politician, known for his controversial and inflammatory statements, commended Zimbabwe for embarking on the violent land reform programme that resulted in the collapse of the economy as well as the murder of scores of white commercial farmers.

Addressing a press conference in South Africa after the visit, Malema hailed Zimbabwe’s land reform policy as “courageous and militant”.

“Land reform in Zimbabwe has been very successful,” he said, adding that the controversial programme was a “very correct method”.

Sounding like Chinotimba, Malema said he would do the same in South Africa.

“We hear you are going straight to the mines. That is what we are going to start doing in South Africa,” said Malema. “We want the mines. They have exploited our minerals for a long time, now it is our turn to also enjoy from these minerals.”

Political analysts fear that Malema’s inflammatory statements could spark invasions of farms and mines by poor landless black South Africans who feel they have not benefited since independence in 1994.

Japhet Ncube, the news editor of City Press, said after his meeting with Mugabe, Malema appeared even more unstoppable and determined to push for the indigenisation of South African farms and mines.

Some analysts strongly believe that his Shoot the Boer song was directly linked to the murder of

Eugene Terre’Blanche, a top member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

His murder allegedly by his employees over a salary dispute has created racial tension between whites and black.

Zuma has appealed for calm amid growing racial tensions in the country.

Just like Chinotimba who supports President Robert Mugabe, Malema practically worships Zuma, former President Nelson Mandela, his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and ANC hero Oliver Tambo.

He has openly expressed his hatred for former President Thabo Mbeki. During his visit to Zimbabwe, Malema did not mention Mbeki in any of his slogans.

Educationally both Malema and Chinotimba did not go far. Chinotimba, a Harare City Council security guard who rose to prominence through Zanu PF’s partisan politics, does not have even an “O” level certificate.

According to the reports, Malema also has very little formal education. During his early years in school, he was once expelled after vandalising the school, destroying some colouring books.

It appears like Chinotimba, Malema will never be called to account or take responsibility for his inflammatory speeches and actions.

Original Source: Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
Original date published: 17 April 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004190878.html?viewall=1