Article: Malema and SA's mines

ANCYL leader Julius Malema has promised to ensure that ANC leades who oppose his efforts to put the country's mines in the state's hands are removed, the Sunday Independent reported.
 
Malema's thinly-veiled threat.

By Moloko Moloto and Sibusiso Ngalwa

In a thinly-veiled threat, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema vowed to stop production at South African mines if his campaign to have private mining operations nationalised by the state was resisted.

In a bid to drum up support, Malema also warned that ANC leaders opposed to his campaign would be removed.

Malema was speaking at the official launch of the youth league’s nationalisation campaign at the Maandagshoek mining community of Limpopo, in a rally attended mainly by young people from the province’s five districts.

If mining did not benefit the majority of South Africans, he told the rally, the league would campaign to ensure it also did not benefit the minority.

“We will fight until we realise economic freedom in our lifetime. Political power without economic power is useless,” Malema said.

He likened mining companies operating in the area to thugs. The only difference, he said, was that the mines were “daylight robbers”. “The people who steal these resources are playing golf in London. They know nothing about your poverty. These mines (have) brought nothing but sickness.”

He claimed victory on his campaign after the ANC’s national general council agreed to investigate nationalisation as a policy option.

The ANCYL under his leadership would emulate the league of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu in ensuring the campaign succeeded. “The ANC leadership of the 1940s was writing love letters to the queen of England, when the youth league wanted a radical programme of action.”

This was in reference to the removal of Dr Alfred Xuma, then-ANC president, “who dismissed Mandela and Sisulu when they wanted radical programme of action instead of negotiations”.

l Malema will come face to face with the ANC’s national working committee tomorrow for the first time after he stormed the podium at the ruling party’s National General Council.

The incident angered senior party leaders, including President Jacob Zuma, and has been referred to the ANC leadership to deal with.

The meeting comes amid a push by leaders opposed to Malema for the fiery youth leader to be disciplined. Malema is already serving a two-year suspended sentence for sowing divisions and undermining the unity of the ANC.
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-IOL
 
The government can barely manage to maintain existing infrastructure, how would they maintain the country's mines as well.

There was an article in business day where economists calculated the cost to purchase all the countries mines, it was something like double the annual health budget.
Has Malema and his buddies looked at these costs? That's assuming they even plan on paying for the mines if they nationalise them.
 
I rarely follow politics, so forgive my ignorance on this matter, but from every video/interview I've seen of Malema, he's a bit of an idiot. So where did the nationalization of the mines idea come from? Who's pulling the strings?
 
The idiot got the idea from one from teh communist south American countries... why didn't they kick him out of the plane while they where over the Atlantic? WHY!?
 
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