INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS
ANCYL president Julius Malema. Picture: Phill Magakoe
ANCYL president Julius Malema on Saturday said it was not true that he had driven white voters out of the ruling party.
“I never drove them (whites) away. They have never voted for us (ANC),” he said during the KwaZulu-Natal ANC Youth League (ANCYL) provincial general congress at the Durban City Hall.
He was commenting for the first time since it was reported that he had cost the ANC minority votes.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe conceded soon after the May 18 local government elections that there were communities which would be “switched off” by ANC leaders' comments which “appeared racist”.
Asked about comments made by Malema, specifically, Mantashe replied: “Comments that are a departure from ANC policy, do not do good for the ANC.”
Malema told delegates it was not true that he drove whites away from the ANC, saying that they never voted for the ruling party even during former President Nelson Mandela's leadership.
“They (whites) never voted for Mandela in 1994 and they never voted for Thabo Mbeki,” he said.
He said whites had not voted for Mandela even when he was involved in reconciliation. The ANC also never won the ward where Mandela's home was situated in Johannesburg. The ward was predominately white.
Malema said it was important for people to apply their minds before they agreed with the reactionaries.
“The policies are not conducted through headlines,” he said.
Malema said the ANC had also liberated white people from apartheid,adding that they now had access to the beauty of the continent.
“South Africa belongs to both blacks and whites. We freed them (whites) and we will continue protecting them,” he said.
He said Coloureds and Indians had worked with blacks in the trenches fighting for freedom.
Malema said the ANC had managed to get 20,000 new votes from the coloured community.
“The new leadership managed to get 20,000 new votes in one year. We would have managed to get more if they had more time,” Malema said referring to the new leaders who took over just one year before the elections. - Sapa
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duh!!, wrote
Maybe He is Just what his name implies in Afrikaans Mad Bucket (mal emma)
Whitey, wrote
I vote for leadership qualities. Not skin color. No leadership in the ANC. Just racist rants and socialist ideologies. I haven't heard Malema make a single speech about the importance of getting an education and using your education to uplift yourself. Malema is a government official, nothing more. The same people that put him there, can vote him out. The ANC of today has become a thriving cancer that's taking us back a 100 years or more. And THAT's why the whites won't vote for you.
Hard Courage, wrote
When are we going to start calling a spade a spade and refer to people like Malema by what he is: a micro-fascist
Chillipeppa, wrote
How would he know? Votes are supposed to be secret votes! There were many who voted for Mandela and even Zuma had white support. I doubt whether Juju will even last long enough to become president.
Zodwa Gumbi, wrote
Can the ANC please do something about this big mouth!!!
Patrick, wrote
Surely if the parents(ANC)cannot dicipline the wayward child(Malaema)it says more about the parents motivation and skills than the childs(Malema)behaviour. It says that the parents, to a certain degree agree with the childs behaviour deriving some sort of satisfaction from this behaviour, that they neither have the will,resolve or desire to change the childs behaviour.
Patrick, wrote
All i can say, bro Foolious Malema,zip it up pal,install a filter between u brain and u mouth and u ll be fine.
Anonymous, wrote
I remember an article that was published where they quoted Malema in saying that it is not against the law to steel from Whites. I also remember the whole incident with the 'Bloody agent' where he said 'Dont come here with your white tendancies'. Who the hell is he kidding. This is published because they dont want to let him go. Evita was right.
Anonomous, wrote
AS LONG AS GARBAGE KEEPS COMING OUR OF YOUR MOUTH MALEMA, THE ANC WILL NEVER GET THE WHITED VOTE. PERHAPS IF WE HAD A PRESIDENT LIKE OBAMA, WE WOULD CONSIDER VOTING FOR THE ANC.
Crystal, wrote
@Ali. Yes there is corruption in other countries, but when people are caught, action is taken; they lose their jobs, are jailed, etc. Can we same the same for SA? Regarding the anc freedom charter, it means nothing if the anc leadership espouses values that are contrary, and it sounds to me like they do!
Charlie Sheen, wrote
Ok, so the ANC went down by about 4%, the DA gained about 6% of votes. Hmmmmmmmm - so either the DA stole a hell of a lot of black voters, or the last of the white votes that did vote ANC. So the ANC states that they gained 20,000 colored voters in one year? Well, if the DA gained 6% of the national votes, then that would mean that of 20,000,000 or so that voted, the DA gained 1,200,000 votes. Suddenly the bragging of Malema doesn't seem that hectic now does it?
Bas, wrote
Dear Julius you are such a chop. As the black sheep of your political family (excuse the pun), you remain one of the best things that has happened to opposition politics in a long time. You see, every time you open your mouth, opposition parties appear to be gaining more and more voters. Long may you continue with your racial rhetoric then, because finally more and more people are beginning to see through your ploy. In case you haven't noticed or choose to ignore, we finally have an opposition movement that represents 1 in 4 voters and is gaining ground against the ANC. If you can try doing a little arithmetic (in place of wood work uhem!)you may soon realise that white voters only represent 8% of the voters. Therefore my dear fellow it would pay you to revisit some of your previous strongholds in order to determine why the ANC has leaked votes in two successive elections.
Gee, wrote
All in your head your moronic pr#$%. Of course whites voted for the ANC, especially in KZN, we just dont wear our party on our sleeves like you lot do! A vote is confidential you tosser! Since you started opening your trap, so many Indians, Coloureds and Whites have left the party, including the Chinese vote. Your bad for business, bad for racist harmony too. Youre only good for the poor unemployed youth who WANT TO SEE YOU rob the coffers, hoping they will get something too. Your vitriolic spillage you call rhetoric is swine swill! Youre good for nothing Malema, except to swing some votes of your idiotic followers!
gazi, wrote
malema for president!! viva the youth leader, soon to be president..viva anc
Anonymous, wrote
@anon 12:06. That paragraph from the London Times is a brutally honest assessment of RSA. It is a seriously embarassing wake-up call for any politician or policy maker with a sense of pride. Race aside you only have to look at schools in pre-1959 Bantu-Education and from the 1980s onwards private schools that allowed non-whites to realise that if your structures are right and the attitude is conducive, you don't need policies for non-whites to achieve in academics, sports etc and to rise to senior positions of authority.
Anonymous, wrote
Malema you don't know what you are talking about. I am white. I voted ANC since 1994. Because of your racist hatred calling us thieves I voted opposition in this last election. As long you keep opening your ugly mouth I will never again vote ANC. In fact i am going to leave the land of my birth because I dislike you and what you stand for so intensely. I have many friends and family who voted ANC and have stopped directly because of you, and many, are also now seeing tyhe writing on the wall and making plans to leave, having spent most of our lives fighting against Nationalist discrimmination and supporting the rainbow nation which you are now single-handedly destroying.
Anni, wrote
"...we will continue protecting them" ... "shoot the boer" ... yes, this is someone we can trust and believe in. Give us a break, Julius. You are the most racist politician I have ever come across! You have nothing to offer this country except hatred and division, and we have had ENOUGH of that, thank you very much!
Anonymous, wrote
Julius, What !!!? just about everyone I know voted Anc at the time - it seemed like the right thing to do. Now, please, boys and girls, let's have no more bs about European countries being rife with corruption - our country take the cake, and those countries are, actually, PROPERLY RUN....everything WORKS ! - from traffic cops to high-level leaders, what may be said about corruption in South Africa, it's almost entirely in the open. No wonder the Anc are losing votes, with many of the poor citing that they have been failed by our leaders. No wonder they want the info bill passed - no-one will be able to expose the high-level corrupt! The rest of the world, however, have their eyes on SA, and reporting will go on, wether they manage to put a blanket on it locally or not. Of course, people are shying away - they are, after all, intelligent....ever wonder what the rest of the world thinks about South Africa? Here's an Interesting paragraph from the London Times "South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control. The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures, such that their only solution is to take it from others." London Times
Mzitos, wrote
Juju you are IDI Amin in the making,but unfortunately you will nver be SA president,infront of my eyes unless USA does not exist.JM must just go to school and learn a lot ,what kind of a leader who does not read?You drove me away frm the ANC because of yuor racist comments.Whites must undrstand that only JM who hates the,he is an old wine in a new bottle,he owes White people a million apologies.
Anonymous, wrote
Malema is a bad garden boy, he speaks nonsense unless he has the right to view ballot papers as I voted for MANDELA and i am white.
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