COMRADE JULIUS MALEMA OWES NO APOPOGY TO ANYONE By: Kaizer Mohau
It puzzles me how the media reports on the issue of an apology which is being demanded from the President of the African National Congress Youth League, Cde Julius Malema. The media reports on this issue in a manner that is consistent with the media conduct during the actual rape trial which was faced by the then Deputy President of the ANC and the current President of both the ANC and the Republic. Moving from the premise that the women who accused Cde Jacob Zuma of rape is a “rape victim” on its own reflect one sidedness on the part of the media. It is mainly to perpetuate the wrong view that the women was indeed correct – despite a decision by a court of law that the women was indeed not telling the truth. But more confusing is the case itself against Cde Julius Malema – naturally one would have expected organisations like Sonke Gender Justice Network to advocate gender justice not injustices. The fact that the judge in the rape trial came to a conclusion that Cde Jcob Zuma was not guilty, on its own should be the point of departure in dealing with these matters. Based on this conclusion by Judge Willem Van der Merwe, one is obviously convinced that the women indeed enjoyed the time she spent – but due to reasons known to her, Ronnie Kasrills and some of her political handlers she had to lie about the ANC leader – Period! We are convinced like the judge, beyond any reasonable doubt that the woman lied. Experience dictates that women like men behaves in a particular way after doing one thing or another – and therefore the behaviour and conduct of this particular woman is not an exception except of course the fact that she cried rape after enjoying herself. The Gender Network should not want to attract attention by being deceitful to the public especially doing this at the expense of Women, Mothers, Sisters, Girlfriends and spouses. I am of the opinion that Cde Julius Malema coming from a democratic movement like the ANC – understands more than those reactionary gender activists, the unacceptable conditions within which many women are subjected to and therefore it will not be proper to think of him as not having respect for women. It is the ANC that has adopted the fundamental strategic objectives of the National Democratic Revolution as coined in three main contradictions; 1. The national question, 2. The class contradiction and 3. The gender contradiction based on gender power relations in our society. So if all of us are genuine to these ideals than we should all agree that Cde Juilius is more than correct in his assertion that the woman enjoyed – to try and cook another verdict as opposed to that of the Judge is not only inhuman but is equally criminal because the judge made a sober decision not one based on a passionate hatred of the ANC and its leaders but one based on factual evidence presented in a court of law. Perhaps, we need to take further the issue with this so-called victim of rape. As for me it is very critical that we request both our foreign Affairs department and relevant law enforcement agencies to investigate reasons for that women to be residing abroad at the expense of the tax payers of this country. In my view there are many real victims of serious crimes in this country and non of them is enjoying the life this “special victim” is enjoying. Our country cannot afford this kind of unnecessary expenses especially in the face of the international capitalist crisis called world financial recession which is resulting to many financial problems particularly in countries like ours. The money we spend on that woman can easily create employment for at least sizeable number of young women or maintain two homes for victims of sexual and physical abuse. I think our country deserves an explanation as to the real reasons for that woman to have been sent abroad – and the reasons why we should keep maintaining her there. Whether is Judge Van der Merwe’s decision for her to be sent abroad or Thabo Mbeki’s, I personally careless – but I will argue that our money should be spend in line with the developmental priorities of my country including job creation and care for real victims. As the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust in Gauteng province, we have for sometimes now been discussing a possibility of seeking legal advice on the possibility of petitioning whoever or whatever department is competent to challenge this woman’s continued sweet life at the expense of our President’s name. It is our view that the continuation of her stay abroad will persistently perpetuates the perception that our President have a dark cloud over his head – this is partly in the light of continued usage of her name by some fake gender groups for their sinister interests. We should once and for all recall this ambassador of liars and reactionaries. I wonder what is she telling other nations about our President or more so how is she talking about our country – but one thing for sure she is not telling good news. So how then do we maintain her and her family – for what good reason? I rest my case! By: Kaizer Mohau (Writing in his personal capacity) Ikageng Potchefstroom North West Province Tel: 072 080 2824 Email: [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
