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Still nothing on the BBC News website
Surely they aren't ashamed their reporter got kicked out of the room?
Surely they aren't that slow with news?
No. Theirs is the perfect response to a little boy's tantrum.
THOSE whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
This ancient proverb found more meaningful currency yesterday at the ANCYL press conference than when it was first uttered in the mid-1800s.
The ANC has to move quickly to remove the finger of Julius Malema from the self-destruct button he’s bent on pressing.
Obviously his jaunt across the Limpopo River hasn’t done him any good. At just 29 he’s now spewing the sort of bile previously thought to be the sole preserve of senile leaders such as octogenarian Mad Bob Mugabe, who hosted him lavishly last week.
Every sort of vitriol the Zanu-PF strongman has thrown against “imperialist enemies” of Zimbabwe, real or imagined, escaped from a much younger orifice this time, Malema’s mouth.
Not content to merely cast aspersions on Zimbabwean opposition politics and the sad persona of Eugène Terre’Blance, Juju Babe felt the need to up the ante – and swear like a sailor.
BBC journalist Jonah Fisher – this “thing”, according to Malema – must still be smarting from the vulgarities.
The Briton’s attempt at back- chatting the belligerent ANCYL bully served only to attract more invectives. “Rubbish” assumed a whole new phallic meaning.
As Fisher inched his way out of the gathering, he was urged on: “Get out, bastard; you agent.”
Despite what Jacob Zuma and Mugabe may have told him, this is hardly the sort of language consistent with a future president.
Somebody, anyone, please save Malema from himself. Now.
No. Theirs is the perfect response to a little boy's tantrum.
Without capitalism there will be no wealth and poverty will be worse.
Yeah but surely they should at least report it because it is a news story after all?
I agree, but no one can deny the effect it has on worsening gaps between rich and poor.
Which is why I said another solution must be found, but moving from one extreme to the next like Malema suggests is not a solution.
He is beginning to remind me of Idi Amin.
He is becoming paranoid about imperialists, whites, an untransformed judiciary, the media, etc., all apparently out to get him.
Plus his sense of personal entitlement.
Like Idi Amin, people are simultaneously alarmed and amused by his buffoonery.
I believe him to be a narcissistic psychopath, the most dangerous class of person.
Still nothing on the BBC News website
Surely they aren't ashamed their reporter got kicked out of the room?
Surely they aren't that slow with news?
He is beginning to remind me of Idi Amin.
It is very clear from what happened here that Julius Malema is nothing else than an uneducated black racist. He hates white people with everything he has inside him and he does not hide it.
Any links to any overseas news agencies carrying this story .. ? Thanks
Still nothing on the BBC News website
Surely they aren't ashamed their reporter got kicked out of the room?
Surely they aren't that slow with news?