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ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. Photo: Moloko Moloto
Embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has called for leadership change in the ruling party, newspapers reported on Friday.
He urged ANC members to “reclaim” the party during its elective conference in Mangaung in December, reported The Star.
“Let's get ready. We are going for a fight. We are going to Mangaung,” it quoted Malema as saying while he delivered the Ephraim Mogale memorial lecture in Moutse, Limpopo, on Thursday.
“We are going to reclaim the ANC, to position it in such a way that it will survive the next hundred years.”
Malema said the ANC had survived for a hundred years because it engaged in robust debates and allowed criticism.
“Today, those who have a different view are pushed aside... Discipline in the ANC was never used to suppress a different view,” he said.
“If there is a leadership that is afraid of new views, new ideas, that leadership will kill the ANC.”
Malema is in the process of appealing against his five year suspension for bringing the party into disrepute and for sowing division in its ranks.
He said former ANC president Alfred Xuma did not kick former president Nelson Mandela out of the party for his radical views when he was young.
Xuma had eventually been removed from power because he rejected the prospect of an armed struggle, as proposed by Mandela and former ANC president Oliver Tambo, who were members of the ANCYL at the time.
The Times reported that Malema also used the lecture to criticise President Jacob Zuma's decision to place five Limpopo departments under national administration.
He hinted that the decision was driven by politics, in an effort to sideline certain groups ahead of the conference.
He said the re-election of Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale as ANC provincial chairman had “proved them wrong.”
“They took over the government thinking that state power would be used to win at the conference. There was a win with or without state power.” – Sapa
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Precious, wrote
All were traumatised under the hateful system of apartheid. White and black were kept apart and to this day are still coming to terms with getting to know one another. Mad Malema is only making our lives harder, he should be uniting the Nation but is busy sowing seeds of hate and division. Send him out to the wilderness where he can mend his ways and learn to have some love for allll the people, only then will he be a true leader. He could be great but needs proper values instilled into his head.
Mzansi 4 sure!, wrote
What a lousy stinky mouth, all spewing crap!!! This fool will never change, when on radio he speaks sense when in Rallies he talks rubbish
Eish, wrote
If Ju-Ju's support base was expanding as rapidly as his waist - this country would be in serious trouble!!!
Vivo, wrote
Malema reached his "sell by date" in 2011. Let him settle in seshego or better still in Gamarishane and herd his mugabe breed cattle. Probably he can nationalise the dry grass too.
mark, wrote
he talk about the changes,l wonder does this man listen 2himself,he was in zimbabwe recently,telling pple of zim there's no need 4 the regime change,now he talks about changes Come on Malema!u look flustered mate
louis, wrote
Nigel Thompson, wrote
leonard, wrote
sphola, wrote
The government of today is full of scandals n corruption it became recycling venue the very same corrupt officals misusing public funds for their own wealth benefiting their friends n families but are being redeployed to other posts still having influence for future corruption on other level while the people voted them in remain jobless n living in poverty. Those culprits must repay with their packages n ill-acquired assets through forfeiture unit because their wealth is just proceeds of crime improperly self enrichment they must be striped lawfully so for them to come n taste RDP kasi life that's the only way root out their criminal minds n be shamed.
Agas, wrote
Billy, wrote
Newspapers are guilty of undermining the Government by promoting Malema. Malema is under suspension and that should be respected by newspapers. People will always comment on these issues because they are forced to. The government for now is thee authority in this country and that should be respected.
Anonymous, wrote
I have to agree we need a change in leadership, unfortunately as you look through the ranks of the ANC and ANCYL you just see that the one is more corrupt, inept and well just dumber than the next. Replace one money puppet with the next, the face will change but the looting and lawlessness will not until the leadership in its entirety is changed, the rotten and corrupt ANC needs to be out for good to see any improvement in SA, until that day carry your vaseline with you becasue you will continue to be raped by our lawless govt. who holds no regard or respect for their taxpayers and voters.
Tsepo87, wrote
The ANC must change but the problem is Malema seems to make a bad situation even worst , he is an uneducated man that is looking out for himself , The youth league needs a new educated young leader not a man that incites violence by the things he says and does , i hope he gets suspended and we dont have to hear from him for a long time
Deena Naidoo, wrote
So Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo were NOT some political fighters as we all led to believe. Both were terrorists involved in an 'armed struggle' against South Africa and it's citizens. The truth has finally surfaced!
robyn, wrote
kwaitos i agree with your comments and i am white . We should all learn to live in peace , it does not matter what your skin colour is . Take each indiviual on their own and judge them .What the nats did to the black people in this country was disgusting . No matter what it is black on black or white on black it is shocking
Karen, wrote
@Kwaitos - your argument has been used by many and has always made me laugh!!! Did a donkey choose to be a donkey, did they make themselves that way? Is their blood not red just like yours and mine? Yet they continue to be used and abused just like many others. Do you have a problem with using the donkey to carry your heavy loads? I thought not!!! We are different and pretending we are not is just so idiotic - the proof is right in front of all of our noses.
Gordon Nair, wrote
He does have a point though(about removing the current leadership),if they were efficient enough Malema would have been booted out of this planet once and for all
Kwaitos, wrote
I agree with Ndugu he is quite true,Alfred Xuma did not kick former president Nelson Mandela out of the party for his radical views when he was young, but Mr. Mandela didn't do dirty businesses and enriched himself like the present comrades do Malema included, however my blood just boils when i read comment from morons like, Juan. Where does he get the audacity to insult our grandfather like that? Can he provide proof of how Mandela and Tambo killed people? He must remember one thing we may not agree with Malema in most of the issues but blood is thicker than water. It is very insensitive for Jaun to post comments like he did. Sometimes i feel like we can drive you guise away and strive to live the way we can because seemingly we cannot co-exist. We can not tolerate to always be subjected to insults, hatred especially by a white folk because the system used to dehumanise us is still very painful but we are prepared to live together and unite in our diverse culture on mutual respect. But when you read comments like these then it is better to die than live to tell your grand children the abuse you suffered from other human beings simple because of yor skin colour which is not of yuor making.
Anonymous, wrote
I agree wit Julius .. all the structures of the ANC need a Leadership change - starting with the ANCYL .. THe new leadership should look after all the people of South Africa and not just themselves.. or perhaps it is time for Malema to start his own political party if he is so unhappy with the ANC
Anonymous, wrote
malema remove the limpopo mafias first then will see that you are serious about what you are saying
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