BUTI MANAMELA
JULIUS Malema, leader of the EFF, should be unmasked rather than written off as a political buffoon. He is a very astute political leader, and precisely for that reason, it is necessary to describe the chaotic game that he is playing.
The EFF’s planned national shutdown next week reveals the true political character of this anti-democratic clad in revolutionary regalia. The Julius I know would care less about the cause he pretends to advance even when the democratic stakes are this high.
The national shutdown is but one example of how Malema’s politics is about merely paying lip service to the law while actually relying on chaos to get the necessary attention that feeds his political character.
Storming parliament. Storming the stage of the ANC NGC in Durban back in 2010.
Or opening gunfire at the EFF rally in Mdantsane in more recent times. Each one of these
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