I'm Finished - Malema

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I'm Finished - Malema


JULIUS Malema admits he is "finished politically" - and intends becoming a cattle farmer.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times this week, the ANC Youth League leader said he had decided to go into cattle farming, as it was close to his heart.

"I have 20 cattle now. We will breed them, take them to the abattoir, slaughter them and then sell the meat. Now I am finished politically. They are saying I am suspended and all that," he said.

In addition, Malema was also given a herd of cattle as a gift by the Zimbabwean Reserve Bank governor, Gideon Gono, when he visited the country in April last year.

But he said: "I have not collected them because I had to find a place where I would put those cattle."

During the interview, at a boutique hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg, a tired-looking Malema, wearing a plain white T-shirt and tracksuit pants, was in no mood for photographs.

"No photos," he told the Sunday Times team, adding: "You have taken enough pictures of me before."

He sipped rooibos tea with honey and lemon. It is also the favourite brew of the man he once vowed that he would kill for - but is now his nemesis - President Jacob Zuma.

Malema spoke frankly about his "friends" who bankrolled his lavish lifestyle and enemies who engineered his downfall.

He said he was being "realistic" about the future, as it was clear that the ANC leadership wanted him gone.

"I am not this religious person who believes that some intervention will come from heaven. I have looked at the trends. I have listened to the speeches. They are all pointing in one direction."

But he said he was "not going to leave without putting up a fight" .

"But I must agree and accept that the determination to get rid of me is there. I can't be aloof and want to behave like nothing will happen."

The youth leader, 30, who tormented his opponents and rattled the ANC's leadership with his sharp tongue, has effectively resigned himself to a life "beyond the ANC".

"With these developments, I have been approached by lots of institutions to try to get something, so that one focuses on business."

He has appealed his five-year suspension for sowing division and bringing the party into disrepute.

On Thursday, he and the league's other top five officials lodged appeals against their penalties, handed down by the ANC's national disciplinary committee earlier this month.

But while his days may be dark, Malema insists that friends are not few. Chief among them is Limpopo premier and his mentor, Cassel Mathale.

"He came to counsel me and told me I have no reason to worry. We must continue to soldier on. Our relationship has gone beyond politics. We are now family, and I think if there is anything that I need for assistance and intervention, they are there."

He said his other friends included ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni and Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula. But, he said, his key ally, Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale, who spoke on his behalf during his disciplinary hearing, "is not my friend - he is my leader".

He denied allegations that the billionaire was bankrolling him, something Sexwale has not admitted to either. "No, Tokyo has never paid anything for me. Not even my house."

He expressed similar sentiments about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who also spoke in his defence, saying: "Mama Winnie is not my friend, but my leader."

Ever defiant, he again insisted that there was a "predetermined" political agenda to deal with him and his youth league leadership.

"Others could no longer hold back their irritation. Others were no longer able to tolerate us, but others just feared change. Change in policy [and] change in leadership. And even when you didn't say, 'I want to remove you,' just through their imagination, they think you want to remove them.

"It doesn't matter how many times you want to reassure them, 'No, chief, we do not want to remove you.' No, they have concluded."

While the youth league has made clear its preferences for Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Mbalula to take over from Zuma and ANC secretary- general Gwede Mantashe, respectively, he denied that the league had actively campaigned for them.

Of the corruption charges against him being investigated by the Hawks and another probe by the public protector into his business dealings, Malema said he was unfazed.

In fact, he said, they offered him an opportunity to identify who his enemies were.

"I actually liked that investigation - because it is going to help me to identify these people. You know, it is not good to live a life in fear, as you are told that people close to you say this [and] say that. Then you are going to suspect everything close to you - including your grandmother ... so it helps me to identify these people. And know what I am in [for]."

But Malema remained evasive about his financial dealings and his business interests.

"I am involved in many businesses," he said.
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Wonder how his T-shirts will sell... :p

Bling-bling Juju label
26 November 2011
KATHRYN KIMBERLEY and LINDILE SIFILE

A SOUTH African fashion designer plans to launch a clothing line named after suspended ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema at the ruling party’s centenary celebrations in Mangaung next year.
The ANC will celebrate the anniversary of its 1912 launch on January 8, kicking off a year-long party which President Jacob Zuma hopes will end in his re-election for another five years as president of the party.
Malema is leading a campaign to have Zuma voted out.
Pretoria-based designer Obakeng Ramabodu acquired the rights to the “Juju” name in June and plans to market a fashion range under that brand.

The line will include colourful berets, T-shirts, sunglasses, watches and children’s clothing.
The Juju label sports a picture of a large pair of lips to imitate someone who talks a lot, with the Juju name scribbled across it.
“It will be fun with bright colours and lots of bling. It is like the beret was made for him; no one can pull it off quite like he can,” said Ramabodu.
The news of the launch came after Malema and other senior leaders were suspended from the ANC earlier this month for bringing the party into disrepute and sowing division among ANC leaders.
He appealed this week, effectively stalling his suspension, and he will be free to attend the January 8 event as ANCYL president if his fate has not been decided by then.
In the meantime, Ramabodu – an avid Malema supporter – is working hard to ensure that Juju is the main attraction at the party, even if he is no longer youth league president.
He said he had watched Malema grow into a political leader who could be compared with Che Guevara, Steve Biko, Oliver Tambo and former president Nelson Mandela.
So, if Malema can’t be in Mangaung in person, he will be there in spirit, with thousands of die-hard fans wearing Juju T-shirts and berets – or so the designer hopes.
The idea to launch the Juju clothing and accessory range at the 100th birthday of the ruling party may not sit well with senior ANC members, however.
“To me this seems like a political collection rather than a clothing line to celebrate the beauty of fashion. Who knows if it’s still going to be relevant in the market after a year,” said political analyst Somadoda Fikeni.

Sonwabile Ndamase, designer of the iconic Madiba shirt , said the timing of the launch was “off” and opportunistic.
He said the strained relations between Malema and the ANC executive could mean the end of the ANCYL president’s political career and a short shelf life for the Juju brand.
“At this point in time Julius’s future as the leader of the ANCYL is under a big question mark and releasing a line under his name on the day when the ANC is celebrating 100 years will seem like an act of defiance. This might backfire,” he said.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/news/article/2398
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"I have 20 cattle now. We will breed them, take them to the abattoir, slaughter them and then sell the meat. "

Pretty how he treated his people that supported them, milked them for all their worth and then sold them off to the highest bidder.
 
Maybe just me, but I got the impression that the Sunday Times '***** footed' around Malema/this article.
 
BrokenLink said:
"I have 20 cattle now. We will breed them, take them to the abattoir, slaughter them and then sell the meat. "

Pretty how he treated his people that supported them, milked them for all their worth and then sold them off to the highest bidder.
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They are going to have foot in mouth disease :erm:
 
Farming is hard work - he has never done that in his life.
 
air said:
Maybe just me, but I got the impression that the Sunday Times '***** footed' around Malema/this article.
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Same here... but I think it was deliberate. No taunting and no misquotes.

Also pre-empting a favourable appeal by JuJu - if they alienate him now he will not give them interviews in future.

All-in-all a very tame article.
 
I think he has been told to go quietly and when the dust has settled for a while, his ANC cronies will redeploy/reward him in some government position.

I doubt we have seen the last of this person.

Look at Tony Yengeni ..... he went to jail and afterwards kept popping up in the news for parole violations and then after staying out of the news for a while till the dust settled, he was rewarded back into politics and got another place at the feeding trough.
 
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JULIUS Malema admits he is "finished politically" - and intends becoming a cattle farmer.
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If only that were true. We haven't heard the last of this snake in the grass yet :mad:
 
Malema will go underground for now. He has made a lot of money that will probably be enough for 5 years and then he will start to make a come back. Malema has shown everyone in the ANC that he is the ideal candidate to be a dictator. I think that the ANC will still battle with corruption and ill-discipline in its ranks and therefore ordinary people of SA will become even more fed up and disillusioned with the ANC and start voting for the DA. I think the DA might even win 30% of the votes in the 2014 elections. Once that occurs, the ANC will call on Malema to serve the ANC, give him a ministerial job so as to prepare him to become ANC president. The ANC will probably not win the war against corruption and enough jobs will not be created. What all those ANC comrades are concerned about making is making as much money as possible so as to by those BMWs and build R20 million houses just to show off and to "live like white people". Those comrades don't really care about serving the poor, they only care about making money and they will make money through the ANC at the expense of the poor. Voters will be fed up with this, the ANC will know that voters will be fed up with this and I think the ANC will elect Malema as ANC president in 2017.

The DA (I think) will win the 2019 elections and Malema will never allow that, he will not give up power to the DA. He will say things like "we will not be ruled by white people, our former oppressors" or "we will not be ruled by black people who are sellouts". He will say things like "we will take land from whites", "democracy hasn't worked for our people and we will use dictatorship so that wealth will be transferred from white people to black people".

What I am basically saying is that Malema is the only person that has shown that he will keep the ANC in power through dictatorship and violence. He has a very good CV and has let people in the ANC know that he is willing to be the bad guy that will destroy democracy in SA. He is willing to be a ruler with an iron fist all in the name of keeping ANC people in power and comfort of their multi-million rand mansions. So we haven't seen the last of Malema, people in the ANC know very well that he is the perfect guy that will lead the ANC and keep it in power once the DA has won votes democratically.

You guys have read it here first........
 
I cannot trust anyone with ties to the anc. They will do whatever they can to hold onto those tax coffers.
 
I wonder now that he's a cattle farmer... how willing he would be to offer up his land for the greater good. Money - mouth. If it happens, may it happen in his backyard first.
 
Oh come on, cattle farmer? A high roller like him tending cattle? He's using a rural image to gain max sympathy from the demographic that's most likely to vote for him. That is all.
 
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Oh come on, cattle farmer? A high roller like him tending cattle? He's using a rural image to gain max sympathy from the demographic that's most likely to vote for him. That is all.
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Exactly my thoughts, and pisss poor of the interviewer not to follow with a question about his multi millions currently in the bank and property investments.

"I have 20 cattle now" - BS
 
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And this makes front page news? I bet you a million dollars he is doing this to take the heat off himself, while plotting his next move.
This little turd is going nowhere and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.
 
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