IN A SPEECH littered with offensive references to 'men' and 'man' that ignored the substantial role played by African women, both during the struggle against apartheid, and the fight against colonialism, Prof PLO Lumumba gave students a one-sided...
Tag: Malema
Gay Malema: Good for the Goose, not just Uganda?
LITTLE MORE THAN one year ago, Julius Malema delivered a bellicose address aimed at expressing his party’s unconditional support for Putin and the United Russia Party (URP) which opposes Gay Marriage. The Russian president had just delivered a Valentine’s Day address stating same-sex marriage “wi...
EFF commits itself to policy of murder on behalf of ‘the revolution’
JULIUS MALEMA has doubled-down on his statements calling murder a 'revolutionary activity'. The party advocates the use of violence in dealing with what it terms, racism and 'white supremacy'. Begging the question who gets to decide which is which, and with obvious problems presented by vigilanti...
Leftsplaining Ukraine: Why does EFF support the Far Right in Russia?
JULIUS MALEMA cynically used an event held to commemorate the 1960 Sharpville massacre to lend his support by implication, to the bombing of a Mariupol Theatre four days earlier, in which 400 persons including children were sheltering. He thus praised Putin's invasion of the Ukraine on a National...
A rather bizarre, jingoistic Covid-19 Freedom Day address by Julius Malema
HAVING JULIUS Malema appear on national television on Freedom Day, as if he were running the country is nothing new. But having the man appear to take charge during a National Disaster, surely one for the history books? Today's address must be seen as consistent with the commandeerist and vanguar...
The far-left’s plan to jail their opponents
THERE is an emerging far-left junta in South Africa. A disparate red anschluss surrounding the egos of Malema, Shivambu, Ndlozi and Vavi, who equally view Mandela's legacy with antipathy and Constitutional democracy, as a means to an end. Our Constitution, accordingly, is nothing more than a high...