Thread: Shoot the Boer - lyrics - Zulu/English

I suppose the core samples are just a hobby then ... especially when the number of the photo seems to indicate that there are many more.

Happy mining.

A slap on the wrist, that's all that Malema got. And now he'll have an opportunity to review the ANC's political education as well with a view to bending things to his will... Would they ever have really put him in place? Think about it: Put Malema in his place because of a "bloody foreign bastard"? Me thinks not

Humble pie 101 for wilful Malema

IT IS back to school for SA’s enfant terrible of politics, Julius Malema.

While he will have to learn about his party and politics as part of his punishment after pleading guilty to undermining President Jacob Zuma , one suspects the main lesson will be how to eat humble pie.

The embattled youth league motormouth will have to hit the books, swatting up on the history of the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies when he attends his first “political school”, which kicks off in Gauteng next week.

Having found him guilty of sowing disunity in the party, the national disciplinary committee meted out some tough love as part of Malema’s suspended sentence, insisting he put in no fewer than 20 days of cramming what he ought to have known, given his leadership position in the youth league.

Malema’s classmates will be new recruits and trainers, who will be inducted into the ways of the ANC over the next 18 months.

ANC national executive committee member Febe Potgieter-Qubule, a member of the ANC’s disciplinary committee who serves on the party’s political education subcommittee, told Business Day the school focused on “structured” learning.

“We have a core curriculum, which looks at the history of the ANC and resistance, theories of development, economic literacy, theories of the state and international policy of the ANC, among other things,” she said.

The idea and practice of political education and schools have a long and rich history in the tripartite alliance. During the 1930s and 1940s the South African Communist Party (SACP) ran “night schools” in some of the major cities, schooling future worker and ANC leaders.

Many lights of the ANC and SACP attended “party schools” in countries such as the former Soviet Union and Cuba during the ANC’s more than 30 years in exile.

Potgieter-Qubule said the school was run like a summer school. The first of a series of five-day modules started next week. “We have block releases, so over the next 18 months it will run at a national level at various venues where we will train around 85 people as part of the political education process,” she said.

The ANC used in-house people to run the school, and drew on a variety of grandees to deliver lectures. For example, when students learnt about the history of the labour movement, former union leaders and ANC historians such as Jay Naidoo and Pallo Jordan would be asked to lecture .

The party also shared trainers with its allies, the SACP and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, as they too ran political schools for their cadres. Last year, the Young Communist League put more than 100 youngsters through their paces at a political school in Johannesburg, where they were lectured on everything from Marxism for beginners to climate change and global warming over a week.

Whether Malema learns anything of value during his back-to- school stint in the ruling party remains to be seen, but what is clear is that the youth league leader is not going to forget his lesson in humiliation any time soon.

brownk@bdfm.co.za

BusinessDay - Humble pie 101 for wilful Malema

WTF ??

Sending him to 'ANC" school as punishment?

Rather send him to do hard labour in a commercial maize farmer's field for 3 weeks!!

That wil teach him more than eating humble pie!!

Mense - dit sal net mooi niks help om te skreeu and huil. Lyk vir my hy's nog hier en hy's daar om te stay? Die man is 'n gevaar, maar as hy gevote word, wat dan? Ons deserve die leaders vir wie ons stem, ne?

Over 700 votes on this thread! Wow! Now that IS a response to an emotional and controversial issue and it appears to be a pretty overwhelming response, too. Well done for putting this up Admin.

Comrade Malema has apologised so back off!

Mr Malema's Letter of Apology
11 May 2010

I, Julius Malema, apologise to the President of the ANC and the Republic, comrade Jacob Zuma and to the membership of the African National Congress and the public in general for the statements and utterances that I made on 11 April 2010 at the ANC Youth League Limpopo Provincial Congress implying that the ANC Youth League has taken a position against the President of the ANC.

I accept that these statements had the effect of undermining the stature of the President of the African National Congress and of the Republic. It further may have had the effect of undermining the confidence of our people in the leadership of the ANC and of creating serious divisions and breakdown of unity in the organization.

I make this apology unconditionally as I accept that as a leader of the ANC and of the ANC Youth League my conduct and public utterances should at all times reflect respect and restraint. I accept one of the key principles of Congress leadership as outlined in Through the Eye of the Needle, a policy document adopted by the 51st and 52nd National Conferences of the ANC, that “an abiding quality of leadership is to learn from mistakes, to appreciate weaknesses and to correct them.”

I have learned from this mistake and therefore submit myself to the discipline of the ANC.

Justina, my dear!


THis apology isn't worth the paper it isn't on!

Justina, Malema did what had to be done, not what he felt he needed to do to come clean.

Just wondering why the world goes silent when in everyday life, we have Malema equivalents with the opposite colour,doing road rage consistently in the formerly advantaged resedential Namibia,yet when the darker shade does the Malema moves, it is terrible...just saying, perhaps if we had a few Malemas in Namibia, things would move faster to redress the wrongs of the past...