INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS
Julius Malema. Photo: Sizwe Ndingane
Embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will know the outcome of his appeal hearing on Saturday, February 04, 2012.
The ANC's national disciplinary committee of appeal (NDCA) would hold a media briefing at the ANC's Luthuli House headquarters, in Johannesburg, on Saturday morning, its chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement.
Last month, Malema's defence team presented oral arguments to the NDCA detailing why Malema's five-year suspension from the ANC should be overturned, advocate Patrick Mtshaulana said.
Malema and other senior ANCYL leaders were suspended after being found guilty of sowing division within the ANC and of bringing the party into disrepute.
This was partly a result of comments made on bringing about regime change in Botswana.
ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu, who was suspended for three years, and deputy president Ronald Lamola, treasurer-general Pule Mabe, secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa and deputy secretary-general Kenetswe Mosenogi, were also appealing their suspensions.
Part of the ANCYL's defence was to try and convince Ramaphosa that they had not been given a chance to argue in mitigation of their sentences.
They were also going to argue that disciplinary committee members, including chairman Derek Hanekom and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu, should have recused themselves.
This was because they had previously publicly disagreed with the ANCYL's positions on land reform and the nationalisation of mines.
They would further submit that the verdict and sanctions relied on an outdated section of the ANCYL constitution.
Should they lose, Malema and his executive could refer the matter to the ANC's national executive committee, they could seek to have the elective conference in Mangaung review the suspensions, or could head to the courts. - Sapa
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Anonymous, wrote
Anonymous, wrote
Curious2, wrote
Malema will surely come out of the DC clean hands. He has a lot of work to do as a young politician and its utterely shocking that the DC actually wanted a hard working politician to spend his time herding cattles when he can make serious changes to our political landscape. He is indeed offensive in his statements but thats what makes him relevant. its not the offense that really irks afrikaaners and so so called progressive liberals, its because he is half the time correct.
STEVE, wrote
albetros what about white students who insult black people or use black paint what do you call it?
Anonymous, wrote
I am WHITE and really like what Malema stands for... he is a great man who speaks the truth; and I am so ashamed that of my race (WHITES) - what they did to Black people for over 400 years.
Anonymous, wrote
Mayibuye iAfrika... we want to see Juju Malema leading the final struggle for Black Economic Freedom during our lifetimes.
Besley, wrote
malema can't be a leader.all those who support him,they are his employees,friends.malema is again not supported by the poeple from his village.
@ Tman, wrote
I missed the sarcasm in your post and i apologise for my angry reply to you :) Lol I must admit I read the first line and thought WTF.
Anonymous, wrote
Bring Malema back then the racist blacks can stop blaming apartheid for their faluires, their mindset of handouts and laziness. Malema can come answer why his people are even more poor and less educated than before he was born. They can stop blaming whites 20 years later becasue their govt. steals the money meant to help their children. LEt Malema come and show that black rule = corrupt rule = a poor people who will starve and die in the streets without any help from the whites.
Anonymous, wrote
Freedfunky, wrote
LOL all these blacks quick to talk about the white man when they quickly forget its our tax money that houses you and feeds you. Quick to forget that the majority of you take hand outs and are qucik to expect things without working for them. You get your hand outs and jobs you dont know how to do and dont deserve becasue the whites allow you to.
Colin, wrote
All these racists blacks forget very quickly who built this country from the sand mounds it was found in, they forget who built farms, businesses and houses, they forget that the more farms they take over the more food we need to import. They forget very quickly that the ANC is begging for our skills to come back to SA as the country is dying without them, they quickly forget about Eskom, Limpopo falling apart, Aurora mines, corruption. They quickly forget about their starving brothers in Zim who would do anything to get the white man back to feed them and pay them wages again. Blacks who wish the whites were gone show their ignorance, lack of education, lack of understanding of economies, business and wealth. The simple minded who never passed school, who work in BEE jobs in failing companies.
@ Tman, wrote
Yes Tman and when you and your brothers are so dirt poor, living in their own filth, your farms baron, buildings falling down, your roads crumbling, no electricty. Then you will be begging the white man to come back and feed your children,to hire people in their companies, to please teach your brothers skills and pay their wages. We have all seen black owned companies like Aroura. If the day comes as you wish you will be dying of starvation and be so poor you wont have the energy to enjoy your darkest africa.
Weza, wrote
@me again, you are quick to judge people based on their academic credentials, you sound like you wrote this in a shebeen somewhere in the township drinking ingudu. U don't have sanity, you are an ambarassment to the African fratenity, what has Malema done for us?, other than empty rhetorics and looting,. U can go and live in Zimbabwe if you want to, this country doesn't owe your vote, understand how democracy works, I voted Thabo even though i didn't think he deserved second term...
louis, wrote
watch Saturday : exiting episode our political reality show. Malema is right but his methodology is wrong and I with thousands of people question his motive(s) Who is his mentor and is in for him. Names have been bandied around watch these Black Mining Magnate they would be the first to benefit
naked eyes, wrote
@siphosethu, you behave ass if when da boer came to this country there was fertile ground being cultivated and crops in abundance for a nation. Farming was at its peak and mining was already in its prime. Look at AUrora it is black people that failed to pay black employees . So do you think MR WOODWWORK man OR the Shower man is any better. You guyz love the easy life of recieving without working hard for it, there are many blackbrothers who hate AA or RDP as this is truely an insult to their integrity as they know they are worth their salt Speak to Zanele Magwaza a vibrant lady of economic upliftment and not one that wishes to sit around like you.
Albatros, wrote
Malema is an embarrassment to the ANC and to the country in a whole. He promotes racialism at its worst and would lead this country into anarchy. What he talks about regarding land reform and nationalisation of the mines has to be talked about but, the way he wants to go about it, is totally wrong. He must just leave and let someone else take over his job, someone who has an education and better knowledge about such things. That's the main problem with the ANC, there are too many people in high places with extremely important jobs who are in control of billions of Rands but just don't have the education, or background, to be able to do them efficiently.
me again, wrote
IF MALEMA IS REMOVED, I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE AND I KNOW MY VOTE COUNT. THE YOUTHS, THE POOR AND THE UNEMPLOYED WILL BE BETRAYED. WE CAN'T HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IS ALWAYS UNZIPPED, HAS NO MATRIC, RUNS COUNTRY AS IF HE IS A CHIEF BY F+**ING EVERY WOMAN HE COMES ACROSS. THE PRESIDENT WHO GIVES A SPEECH THAT MAKES ALMOST EVERYONE OUT OF THE STADIUM BECAUSE THEY EXPECTED AS ALWAYS IT WILL HAVE NO VISION BUT FOCUS ON DEAD PEOPLE. YES TO LEADERSHIP CHANGE. I HEARD DA ALSO TRIED TO BE IN THE NEWS BY SUSPENDING ONE OF ITS WELL KNOWN RAPISTS.
roy, wrote
I say let Malema off, let him go free he is one of the prime reasons black people will not progress. To improve 30 000 000 black people's lives requires clever non corrupt strategically thinking individuals, and all of that caliber of individuals is sitting in the DA branches like Masibuke, Trollop etc. Just in case you wandering i'm black and has voted for the ANC more then any other party, but that is soon going to change.
Jeff, wrote
To hell with malema. people do u like what u see in Zimbabwe? hez buzy singing hate songs about other races. That is not a leader, that boy is just bringing nightmares to this country like Mugabe did to Zim.
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