Lulletje Rozewater
04-09-2010, 06:50 AM
The blowup at Malema's press conference happened as the ANC youth leader was speaking about his recent trip to neighboring Zimbabwe. He said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party, which is in an acrimonious unity government with hardline President Robert Mugabe, will not find "friendship" with the ANC in South Africa.
"They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices in Sandton. We are unshaken," he said, referring to the wealthy suburb of Johannesburg.
BBC television journalist Jonah Fisher said Malema himself lives in Sandton. Malema's eyes got big and he blew up.
"Don't come here with that white tendency ... undermining blacks!" Malema shouted. He insulted Fisher's manhood, called for security officers to throw the reporter out and said: "Go out, bastard! You bloody agent."
Malema has found an ear among poor black South Africans disenchanted that their right to vote has not been matched by access to decent housing, jobs, good education and health care. South Africa is the richest country in Africa, yet the ANC has been unable to translate that into better lives for the people.
Only a small black elite has become enormously rich since apartheid ended. Studies show the majority of blacks are worse off financially than they were under the white government.
"Race still matters very much in South Africa ... particularly the coincidence between race and inequality, race and poverty and race and unemployment, with the black youth experiencing all those disproportionately," said Justin Sylvester, a researcher at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
See first paragraph and photos here
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8VzuRHB0aE77QptaWTriNjljkoQD9EV3JIG0
The media should have stormed out.
Video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpIcwctC7nQ
full word speech here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist
"They can insult us here from air-conditioned offices in Sandton. We are unshaken," he said, referring to the wealthy suburb of Johannesburg.
BBC television journalist Jonah Fisher said Malema himself lives in Sandton. Malema's eyes got big and he blew up.
"Don't come here with that white tendency ... undermining blacks!" Malema shouted. He insulted Fisher's manhood, called for security officers to throw the reporter out and said: "Go out, bastard! You bloody agent."
Malema has found an ear among poor black South Africans disenchanted that their right to vote has not been matched by access to decent housing, jobs, good education and health care. South Africa is the richest country in Africa, yet the ANC has been unable to translate that into better lives for the people.
Only a small black elite has become enormously rich since apartheid ended. Studies show the majority of blacks are worse off financially than they were under the white government.
"Race still matters very much in South Africa ... particularly the coincidence between race and inequality, race and poverty and race and unemployment, with the black youth experiencing all those disproportionately," said Justin Sylvester, a researcher at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
See first paragraph and photos here
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8VzuRHB0aE77QptaWTriNjljkoQD9EV3JIG0
The media should have stormed out.
Video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpIcwctC7nQ
full word speech here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist