Malema: ANC won't change Constitution

[Merlin]

15/01/2009 14:05 - (SA)
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Johannesburg - The ANC will not change the Constitution to protect presidential front-runner Jacob Zuma against graft charges, Youth League leader Julius Malema said on Thursday.

"We're not going to agree to any changing of the Constitution... it will never be amended to suit an individual," the African National Congress Youth League leader told reporters in Johannesburg.

"What is wrong with the president of the republic going in and out of court?" asked Malema.

However, he added that the ANCYL was confident that most of the allegations against Zuma "would've been dealt with" by the time he is inaugurated as president of the country.

"President Jacob Zuma will be president of the Republic of South Africa after the 2009 general elections and after the ANC has won more than 75% of the votes," said Malema.

He was reacting to a judgment handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday, which in effect reinstated charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering against Zuma.

- SAPA

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2453719,00.html

Right, so basically what Malema has said is that the bribery and corruption necessary to put the scumbag in power are already underway, and that they have also already started printing the millions of rigged ballot papers they intend to use?

 

[sox63]

75%?!? Geez they are ambitious.

 

[Slaine73]

They don't need to change it, they know all the loopholes and are using it to their full advantage. If they cahnge it they have to find new ways.....

 

[CTSA]

I wonder when they will set the trail date?

 

[shadowfox]

"President Jacob Zuma will be president of the Republic of South Africa after the 2009 general elections and after the ANC has won more than 75% of the votes," said Malema.

Doesn't he mean 3 thirds?

"What is wrong with the president of the republic going in and out of court?" asked Malema.

and does he honestly expect us to answer that?

 

[semiautomatix]

75%?!? Geez they are ambitious.

Even if it were the case no party in a modern democracy should want to get more than 2/3 of the vote. This puts them in a dangerous and precarious position, and is not good for democracy as a whole.