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09-14-2011, 01:15 AM
South Africa's youth leader Julius Malema is for the agitators to push the African Youth in a chaotic wave of protests. Everywhere on the continent flame turmoil.
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Juliua supporters of Malema in Johannesburg, South Africa. Many sing the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer" ("Kill the Whites") that Malema had made popular again. He was singing the song now prohibited
The white tent in the Johannesburg slum Alexandra is overcrowded, and some older women are desperate for free chairs. Respect for elders is paramount in South Africa, and the spokesman asked on stage to make room. But the youth refused vociferously. "This here is our event," call them, tell it to later press reports. Thus, the seniors at the rally, the 67th Anniversary of the Youth League of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress ANC at the foot of the stage to take place. In addition to the children.
Such indignities are still among the less violent excesses, which harassed the Youth League, the country has been headed by a charismatic and menacing young man standing - the guest star on this day: Julius Malema, 30 years old, most controversial politician of African economic power and self-confessed admirer of Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe.
As soon as the welcoming applause had died away, rewarded Malema his followers with a particularly angry outburst at the podium: "We are at war, and we should push it forward," he said, "There will be losses, but I know that we will win. "
Malema calls for coup in Botswana
Malema was his plea for the redistribution of land in South Africa in Alexandra aware. The completely overpopulated area is one of the poorest in the country, while it lies just ten minutes drive from Sandton's financial district from the noble. A mirror image of the social differences that are greater in Africa than in any other country in the economy.
In Alexandra, the Sandton residents Malema territory find themselves "the most reliable forces of the revolution". And the heats of the lovers of German luxury cars like never before. For two weeks, Malema must answer for his party leaders before a court of the ANC. Regardless of just one year previous warning he had spread his hate speech against the white minority further and finally even to the coup in a neighboring country called Botswana, whose government "in full cooperation with the imperialists," the principal.
That was in the bill itself too much for the ANC, who is accustomed to media attention provocations of the Youth League. Malema has damaged the party image and try to split them, so the accusation.
The defendant now appears even his expulsion from the party to consider possible. He is regarded as a threat to President Jacob Zuma, whom he had four years ago, still supported on its way to the top ANC. "If you exclude me, then I go with a pure soul," he admitted heroically in his birthday speech. His crime consisted merely to remind people of their rights: "We want our land back, and we want it for nothing," he thundered from the podium. But he does not need the permission of the ANC.
At least since two weeks ago, around 1000 Youth League supporters demonstrated in front of party headquarters Malemas for acquittal and rioted in the way of the Johannesburg inner city, the boss seems convinced to be no longer rely on the party.
Horrendous youth unemployment
What is certain is that populists like he can draw from a vast potential for social conflict: A quarter of the population is between 15 and 24 years old - and every second of it is unemployed. Even for the slightly older, the prospects are hardly rosy: The Institute of Race Relations recently calculated that half of today's 25 to 34 years old South Africans will never have a regular job in their lives.
South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe described the horrendous youth unemployment in August as a "ticking time bomb." Malema, who succeeded his schooling until the age of 21 are missing, the vision for the country. But the half-orphan from an impoverished Limpopo Province is aware of the explosive social and behaves like one who would pull the fuse today rather than tomorrow.
The white minority still controls large parts of the South African economy, they occupied over 70 percent of management positions. These people are so Malema in his speech that "criminals, and you have to treat them like criminals!"
With such tirades seem Malemas followers not to interfere, that the boss can afford at a grade of supposedly only 2400 euro for the construction of an ostentatious mansion and several luxury cars. In South Africa the whites, the valve of the demagogue. So described the opposition leader Helen Zille Malema (a descendant of the Berlin artist) as a "monkey".
Frustration is high across the continent
But the stress is not a specialty of the Cape Republic. The frustration of youth is large on the continent. While experiencing particularly resource-rich countries such as Angola or Nigeria an impressive economic growth, but on the living conditions of the masses does this little. Many countries are struggling with tremendous population growth by 2050 will double the number of Africans.
The misery is old. New, however, the vehemence of the protests is south of the Sahara. Angola in early September, the police let dogs loose on 300 young activists who were demonstrating in the capital Luanda to the government. 42 were arrested.
Even in Uganda, Swaziland and Malawi, the people fighting against corrupt and inefficient government structures. Often, however, the ruler will benefit from a lack of education to young people, they themselves have caused. Lack of investment in education of those in power sometimes use, the analyst Moeletsi Mbeki said recently in an interview with "online world" .
Foreign investment is low
In Zimbabwe, Mugabe's terror organization "Green Bombers" is notorious for years. Once it was established as an alleged training initiative. In Nigeria, politicians abusing young unemployed people directly as a street fighter. Sun fueled the crisis, the ethnic-religious conflict between Muslims and Christians, according to the UN in the past ten years, about 10,000 people fell victim. And in Somalia, the Islamist al-Shabab recruited not because of the fascination of Sharia effortlessly young, but especially one with a regular income.
South Africa, the continent's biggest economy invested significant seven percent of gross domestic product in education, but the results are meager. Constructive contributions to these failings of their parent party's lack of competence and the Youth League will now owed. Malema has no influence on the legislation, but his comments have helped to make the much needed foreign direct investment is lower than in other emerging countries like Brazil or India, with which South Africa would like to see at eye level.
"Why would a company invest in the mining sector in a country where the nationalization of non-stop talking?" Moeletsi Mbeki asks rhetorically. Such slogans were among the reasons why the most important South African industry is shrinking for years.
Economic growth shrinks significantly
And recent data leave little room for hope. The country is feeling the economic weakness of its trading partners in Europe and North America-sensitive. The growth slowed from 4.5 percent at the beginning of the year to just 1.3 percent in the second quarter - not nearly enough to create new jobs. On the contrary, the rigid labor laws and unions strike joyful exacerbate the crisis. The unemployment rate stands at a record level of 25.7 per cent - so there are almost as many job as permanent workers, about 9 million.
At least one damper must now plug in Malema. A court forbade the singing of the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer" ("Kill the Whites"). Nobody has the right to sing a song, may find that a citizen of white skin color as an insult, told Judge Colin Lamont. Be kind song during apartheid have been legitimate, it would now be in a realignment of ethnic relations at the struggling company like political persecution.
Malema had several events on the ANC Youth League and sang the song as a cultural defense - despite the fact that have been murdered since the end of apartheid more than 3,000 white farmers. After the recent ruling now threatens anyone who strikes up the song or cited for criminal prosecution. Malema, that much seems sure, will respond to this risk.
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13600673/Junge-Afrikaner-rebellieren-gegen-Weisse-und-Aeltere.html
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Juliua supporters of Malema in Johannesburg, South Africa. Many sing the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer" ("Kill the Whites") that Malema had made popular again. He was singing the song now prohibited
The white tent in the Johannesburg slum Alexandra is overcrowded, and some older women are desperate for free chairs. Respect for elders is paramount in South Africa, and the spokesman asked on stage to make room. But the youth refused vociferously. "This here is our event," call them, tell it to later press reports. Thus, the seniors at the rally, the 67th Anniversary of the Youth League of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress ANC at the foot of the stage to take place. In addition to the children.
Such indignities are still among the less violent excesses, which harassed the Youth League, the country has been headed by a charismatic and menacing young man standing - the guest star on this day: Julius Malema, 30 years old, most controversial politician of African economic power and self-confessed admirer of Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe.
As soon as the welcoming applause had died away, rewarded Malema his followers with a particularly angry outburst at the podium: "We are at war, and we should push it forward," he said, "There will be losses, but I know that we will win. "
Malema calls for coup in Botswana
Malema was his plea for the redistribution of land in South Africa in Alexandra aware. The completely overpopulated area is one of the poorest in the country, while it lies just ten minutes drive from Sandton's financial district from the noble. A mirror image of the social differences that are greater in Africa than in any other country in the economy.
In Alexandra, the Sandton residents Malema territory find themselves "the most reliable forces of the revolution". And the heats of the lovers of German luxury cars like never before. For two weeks, Malema must answer for his party leaders before a court of the ANC. Regardless of just one year previous warning he had spread his hate speech against the white minority further and finally even to the coup in a neighboring country called Botswana, whose government "in full cooperation with the imperialists," the principal.
That was in the bill itself too much for the ANC, who is accustomed to media attention provocations of the Youth League. Malema has damaged the party image and try to split them, so the accusation.
The defendant now appears even his expulsion from the party to consider possible. He is regarded as a threat to President Jacob Zuma, whom he had four years ago, still supported on its way to the top ANC. "If you exclude me, then I go with a pure soul," he admitted heroically in his birthday speech. His crime consisted merely to remind people of their rights: "We want our land back, and we want it for nothing," he thundered from the podium. But he does not need the permission of the ANC.
At least since two weeks ago, around 1000 Youth League supporters demonstrated in front of party headquarters Malemas for acquittal and rioted in the way of the Johannesburg inner city, the boss seems convinced to be no longer rely on the party.
Horrendous youth unemployment
What is certain is that populists like he can draw from a vast potential for social conflict: A quarter of the population is between 15 and 24 years old - and every second of it is unemployed. Even for the slightly older, the prospects are hardly rosy: The Institute of Race Relations recently calculated that half of today's 25 to 34 years old South Africans will never have a regular job in their lives.
South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe described the horrendous youth unemployment in August as a "ticking time bomb." Malema, who succeeded his schooling until the age of 21 are missing, the vision for the country. But the half-orphan from an impoverished Limpopo Province is aware of the explosive social and behaves like one who would pull the fuse today rather than tomorrow.
The white minority still controls large parts of the South African economy, they occupied over 70 percent of management positions. These people are so Malema in his speech that "criminals, and you have to treat them like criminals!"
With such tirades seem Malemas followers not to interfere, that the boss can afford at a grade of supposedly only 2400 euro for the construction of an ostentatious mansion and several luxury cars. In South Africa the whites, the valve of the demagogue. So described the opposition leader Helen Zille Malema (a descendant of the Berlin artist) as a "monkey".
Frustration is high across the continent
But the stress is not a specialty of the Cape Republic. The frustration of youth is large on the continent. While experiencing particularly resource-rich countries such as Angola or Nigeria an impressive economic growth, but on the living conditions of the masses does this little. Many countries are struggling with tremendous population growth by 2050 will double the number of Africans.
The misery is old. New, however, the vehemence of the protests is south of the Sahara. Angola in early September, the police let dogs loose on 300 young activists who were demonstrating in the capital Luanda to the government. 42 were arrested.
Even in Uganda, Swaziland and Malawi, the people fighting against corrupt and inefficient government structures. Often, however, the ruler will benefit from a lack of education to young people, they themselves have caused. Lack of investment in education of those in power sometimes use, the analyst Moeletsi Mbeki said recently in an interview with "online world" .
Foreign investment is low
In Zimbabwe, Mugabe's terror organization "Green Bombers" is notorious for years. Once it was established as an alleged training initiative. In Nigeria, politicians abusing young unemployed people directly as a street fighter. Sun fueled the crisis, the ethnic-religious conflict between Muslims and Christians, according to the UN in the past ten years, about 10,000 people fell victim. And in Somalia, the Islamist al-Shabab recruited not because of the fascination of Sharia effortlessly young, but especially one with a regular income.
South Africa, the continent's biggest economy invested significant seven percent of gross domestic product in education, but the results are meager. Constructive contributions to these failings of their parent party's lack of competence and the Youth League will now owed. Malema has no influence on the legislation, but his comments have helped to make the much needed foreign direct investment is lower than in other emerging countries like Brazil or India, with which South Africa would like to see at eye level.
"Why would a company invest in the mining sector in a country where the nationalization of non-stop talking?" Moeletsi Mbeki asks rhetorically. Such slogans were among the reasons why the most important South African industry is shrinking for years.
Economic growth shrinks significantly
And recent data leave little room for hope. The country is feeling the economic weakness of its trading partners in Europe and North America-sensitive. The growth slowed from 4.5 percent at the beginning of the year to just 1.3 percent in the second quarter - not nearly enough to create new jobs. On the contrary, the rigid labor laws and unions strike joyful exacerbate the crisis. The unemployment rate stands at a record level of 25.7 per cent - so there are almost as many job as permanent workers, about 9 million.
At least one damper must now plug in Malema. A court forbade the singing of the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer" ("Kill the Whites"). Nobody has the right to sing a song, may find that a citizen of white skin color as an insult, told Judge Colin Lamont. Be kind song during apartheid have been legitimate, it would now be in a realignment of ethnic relations at the struggling company like political persecution.
Malema had several events on the ANC Youth League and sang the song as a cultural defense - despite the fact that have been murdered since the end of apartheid more than 3,000 white farmers. After the recent ruling now threatens anyone who strikes up the song or cited for criminal prosecution. Malema, that much seems sure, will respond to this risk.
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13600673/Junge-Afrikaner-rebellieren-gegen-Weisse-und-Aeltere.html