-----Original Message----- From: Dominic.Tweedie Sent: 08/05/2010, 08:34 To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Julius Malema surfaces at Country Escape
Saturday Star *Malema sticks to his guns in first appearance after self-imposed exile* *Sibusiso Ngalwa, Saturday Star, Johannesburg, 8 May 2010* ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has resurfaced from his self-imposed exile as defiant as ever, emphasising the league's autonomy and vowing never to be muzzled. An emotional Malema went on to sing the controversial Ayesaba Amagwala song, which was found to be unconstitutional by the Johannesburg High Court. But this time he sang a different version of the song, where he substituted the offensive "Dubul'ibhunu" (shoot the boer) with "Dubul'igwala" (shoot the coward). Malema said that throughout history the league had enjoyed freedom to express its views, however controversial they were. "When Nelson Mandela called for armed struggle, it was not policy of the ANC, and he was allowed space to raise why the ANC had to take armed struggle," he said. "The leadership of the ANC did not seek to muzzle him and stop him from saying what he had to say. "There are many things that were said and done by various leaders and generations of the ANC, but they were never silenced through threats of suspension and expulsion from the ANC. They were never an irritation to the leadership of the ANC." Malema was addressing a Young Women's Assembly, organised by the youth league, at the Ingwenya Country Escape in Muldersdrift, west of Joburg, yesterday. Malema - facing disciplinary action for alleged ill-discipline and bringing the ANC into disrepute - urged youth league members to defend the league's autonomy. "We owe it to these generations to protect and defend the autonomy of the ANC Youth League. We owe it to Peter Mokaba to defend the autonomy of the ANC Youth League," he said, to applause from the crowd of about 100 youth league members. On Monday, Malema made his first appearance before the ANC's disciplinary committee, headed by Deputy Science a Email truncated to 2,000 characters :::0:975e178c7408c73fb2c8ae929a34420a:7d0:x::: Original message is located on server -- 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] .
