Julius Malema, the South African ruling ANC’s firebrand youth leader, has taken a defiant stand putting himself further at odds with the party leadership over a rebuke by President Jacob Zuma.
The prominence and racially tinged rhetoric of Malema have drawn concern within the ANC and Zuma condemned his behavior by terming it as “alien to the ANC“.
From AU.News.Yahoo.com:
“I have not done anything to undermine the ANC,” local media quoted Malema as saying on Sunday, criticising Zuma for the public rebuke and comparing him unfavourably with former President Thabo Mbeki, who was ousted by the ANC in 2008.
“Even President Thabo Mbeki, when he differed with the Youth League, and the Youth League had taken firm radical positions against him, he never did that,” Malema told a news conference in the Limpopo region.
Zuma castigated Malema for throwing a foreign journalist out of a news conference, for diverging from official policy on Zimbabwe and for failing to halt inflammatory comment after the murder of white separatist Eugene Terre’blanche.
Malema is believed to have support of ANC Youth League and a part of South Africa’s black population who are of the view that the apartheid end should have delivered more than what is received by now.
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