Malema speaks out

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Johannesburg - ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has for the first time publicly defended his controversial Ratanang Family Trust, which he is believed to be using to support his lavish lifestyle.

Malema said he was using the trust, which lists his son and his grandmother as beneficiaries, to fund charitable causes.

The news of the trust broke in City Press last weekend at a time when questions were being raised about how the ruling party’s youth wing leader could afford to fund a flamboyant lifestyle and the construction of a house suspected to cost R16m on his R25 000-a-month pay.

The Democratic Alliance said it would ask the public protector to institute an investigation into the fund, while the Afrikaner interest group AfriForum said it would ask the Hawks to investigate corruption allegations against Malema.

Speaking in the Eastern Cape town of Queenstown, Malema said he wouldn’t take bribes “knowing that my enemies are out to destroy me”.

He said there was a lot of businessmen who had deposited money into the Ratanang Family Trust's account because he had approached them to fund charitable causes.

He said the media had misled the nation by claiming that he had a "secret trust. He said he wouldn’t put the names of his son and grandmother on the trust fund if it was meant to carry out illegal activities.

"How many leaders and public figures have got trusts and community trusts? In South Africa there is not what we call secret trusts, there is nothing like that.

"This trust they are talking about is a trust that continues to help the poorest of the poor. It is that trust that donated wheelchairs here," he said.

No proof

Malema also rubbished claims that an unnamed businessman had deposited R200 000 into his account, saying there was no proof to back up such claims.

"We don’t have a problem with that. You must give us a receipt [of payment]…because if you deposited into the account it means there is a paper trail.

"That trust has built churches, that trust has built houses for the poor, that trust has taken so many kids to school…and that trust will continue to do that. I don’t care who says what. If they want to lock me up for what I believe in, let them do that," Malema said.

He spared the venom of his spleen for City Press, saying the paper was protecting an "alleged corrupter" while exposing the "alleged corrupted".

"Why is City Press protecting a criminal who has paid a bribe and who has accepted that (he has paid) a bribe? Such a person must be exposed. And by the way, I’m taking you to court City Press for defamation of character. In your defense you’ll be forced to reveal this ape," he said.

But Malema’s attorney Marothi Ledwaba, who represented the youth leader in his failed bid to gag City Press on Saturday, said he had not received any instruction from Malema to sue the paper.

"I can confirm that our client has not instructed us to do so," he said.

Malema visited Queenstown the attend the court case of a white man who allegedly shot his black neighbour following an argument over the ANCYL supremo.

The wounded man Siyabonga Ndabeni is still in hospital, while the attempted murder case against his neighbour Gerdus Greyvenstein was remanded in custody.

Greyvenstein appeared for a bail application this morning, but his new attorney could not make it to the Queenstown Magistrate's Court.

A group of ANCYL supporters gathered outside court to protest in support of Ndabeni.
- City Press
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Malema-speaks-out-20110728-3
 
Now I'd like for people to speak up who actually benefited from this trust.
 
I cannot see how building a house and buying cars and stuff is charity? Someone explain?
 
Aah... I remember those wheelchairs the trust had paid for...

Shivambu has promised to pay, saying he had referred Visagie to Ali Boshielo, a board member of Lembede Investment Holdings, which he said had "direct oversight" of the league's Ulutsha Development Trust.

"We are aware that there are wheelchairs that should be paid for and delivered... we'll sort out the payment as soon as we have sorted out the challenges in Ulutsha Development Trust," Shivambu said.

Visagie said Boshielo had told him there was no money, and that Shivambu should never had ordered the wheelchairs and the organisation would have to fundraise to pay the bill.

Shivambu, who is also the spokesman for the trust, said: "We had wished to pay for the wheelchairs before the end of last year and we did not because we did not have money. The ANC Youth League will continue to fundraise from various donors and will ultimately buy the wheelchairs for the school in the Eastern Cape. There was never any expressed or implied agreement on when the payment will be made, despite that we had intended to pay as soon as possible yet due circumstances we could not control, the payment was delayed," Shivambu said.
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But it seems that Juju remembers it another way. Also I can just see how easy it is to confuse "Ulutsha Development Trust" with the "Ratanang Family Trust "... my word, these two sound practically identical... I can see how Floyd and Juju can so easily confuse the two.
 
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I wonder if he will be arrested for calling a person an"ape" or will everyone turn a blind eye to that remark?
 
Is he referring to the church in Limpopo that he promised but never built? Or the shoes he promised the school kids but never donated? Or the wheelchairs he promised but never actually got around to purchasing, let alone handing over? Are those the charitable responsibilities of this trust? And I see he called someone an ape - I wonder he'll be taken to task like the woman who posted something similar on her facebook page?
 
Yeah right, if a receipt (deposit confirmation) is presented, then the argument will be that the depositor (corrupter) knew that it was a donation to charity, now we should be shown all the receipts and confirmation of payments to charities.


"This trust they are talking about is a trust that continues to help the poorest of the poor.
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How is it that an ANCYL trust account setup solely to support charities, lists Malenama's family as the beneficiaries ?

What a dirty dick.
 
Shibal said:
How is it that an ANCYL trust account setup solely to support charities, lists Malenama's family as the beneficiaries ?
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Regardless of the trust's purpopse, it's for either tax avoidance or tax evasion. But it's still a good question...
 
Hope he files for defamation.
City Press will have a field day as they can then force him to give info on his accounts :)
 
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He said the media had misled the nation by claiming that he had a "secret trust. He said he wouldn’t put the names of his son and grandmother on the trust fund if it was meant to carry out illegal activities.
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So its true it did breed :eek:

The poor child must be really special if Julius is its father.
 
waynegohl said:
I wonder if he will be arrested for calling a person an"ape" or will everyone turn a blind eye to that remark?
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Yup, ironic how a white woman was taken to court earlier this week for saying the people who's striking are acting like monkeys, but when a black guy makes a remark like that, it's fine? As always, it's only racism when it comes from a white person...
 
Roger.Wilco said:
Yup, ironic how a white woman was taken to court earlier this week for saying the people who's striking are acting like monkeys, but when a black guy makes a remark like that, it's fine? As always, it's only racism when it comes from a white person...
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correct, makes you wonder if people saw that or did but turned a deaf ear.
 
But don't you know by now, only white people are racist, only white people are raping the African resources and only white people are in big tender generating business. The Africans are still poor and struggling to be liberated from white oppression.The whites made Malema buy a R16mil house through their oppression, they also force him daily to drive a R1.2mil Range Rover. Viva comrades viva !
 
I've always found 'viva' and 'comrade' to be quite ironic words for the ANC to use. 'Viva' is Spanish and the etymology of the word 'comrade' stems from the French, not the Russians as is commonly thought...
 
a wheelchair for you - a ferrari for me
a donation to your church - a R75k holiday for me
a food parcel for you - a R25k watch for me

now that squares it all.
 
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