Remnants of the counter-revolution, including the Democratic Alliance, and those opposed to Jacob Zuma becoming South Africa's next president must be eliminated, says ANC Youth League President Julius Malema.
"We must … intensify the struggle to eliminate the remnants of counter-revolution, which include the DA and a loose coalition of those who want to use state power to block the ANC president's ascendancy to the highest office of the land," he said on Sunday.
Malema was speaking at the funeral of former ANCYL Free State secretary Thabo "Skotch" Moeketsi in Vredefort.
Malema also said members of the ANC and its Youth League who got involved in crimes like stealing public money or stabbing other members were "rotten apples" who should be "uprooted from our midst without mercy".
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"The ANC and indeed the Youth League have no place for people who carry sour grapes and create cabals because they believe they are entitled to leadership."
Malema said Zuma would not only be the face of the ANC election campaign in 2009 but also the next president of South Africa.
"The political campaign to rubbish his name and destroy his political career will not succeed."
The National Prosecuting Authority was involved in a "relentless pursuit of an innocent man using state resources".
Malema said the NPA had let criminals like Mark Thatcher and many others off the hook.
"This is a sad indictment on those charged with the responsibility to lead this institution."
He said the case represented an "unprecedented attack on the ANC's leadership".
"Our responsibility is to defend the ANC and its leadership with everything we have.
"We remain firm in our determination to unleash every resource at our disposal to obliterate this sham of a case and expose the counter-revolutionary agenda it represents."
Speaking on the situation in Zimbabwe, Malema said the political crisis should be solved through dialogue. - Sapa
- This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on July 14, 2008
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