The ANC has finally started disciplinary hears against the fire brand ANCYL leader Julius Malema following his call for regime change in Botswana. He accused the Botswana government of President Ian Khama of working "in full co-operation with imperialists" and thus undermining the "African agenda". Whatever that was supposed to mean!
The ruling ANC has finally called Malema and a number of his fellow leaders in the ANCYL to a party disciplinary hearing for bring the party into disrepute. Malema asked the charges to be quashed on the grounds that he was not aware of the party’s constitutional clauses forbidding him making the outlandish statements.
Malema is a multi-millionaire in his own right and it is widely believed his fortune is from corrupt activities. It is clear; he could not have accumulated his fortune from his earning as President of ANCYL and all his other known legal business activities alone. The authorities have never investigated the many charges of corruption against Malema.
If the ANC find Malema guilt of bring the party into disrepute and throw him out of the party, may be then will the corruption charges be investigated.
What people have to ask is why is it that the ruling ANC party has to dump Malema first before serious charges of corruption against him are investigated? A rhetorical question, of course, because we all know in SA and, indeed, the rest of Africa the ruling elite are above the law.
If Malema is guilt of the corruption charges against him then he will have costed the SA public billions of Rands and thus threatened well being of the whole nation. Surely the well being of SA is more important than the reputation (What reputation, you might well ask?) of a political party.
Even if Malema was thrown out of the ANC there is no guarantee his corrupt past will be investigated! He pleaded ignorance of ANC’s constitution stopping him making outlandish statements but he is, no doubt, surprisingly well informed of the corruption taking place in high places. ANC leaders know they can not dare to throw Malema to the wolves because he will spill the beans and take many of them down with him!
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