VC, please indulge us: Besides these "ooportunistic" names which you have mentioned here - Malema, Bishop Seoka, Joseph Mathunjwa and others, who is the relevant person dealing with that mess? And how is that person dealing with that Marikana inferno as we speak?
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:58 AM, VC <[email protected]> wrote: > * > Seoka, Malema, and the Marikana murder-market* > ** ** > ** ** > National Secretary of the YCL Buti Manamela, in a speech, yesterday > described how Julius Malema bought himself a platform in Marikana with > cash. **** > ** ** > Let’s hope the text of Cde Buti’s speech will come through in due course, > and be posted here. It is briefly reported in the Star this morning under > the heading “Malema ‘bought the support of miners’”. > ** ** > Malema’s is not the only mouth for hire in Marikana. Who else is in the > Marikana mouthpiece-market that is fuelled by dead bodies? > ** ** > One is Bishop Johannes Seoka, as we noted yesterday. Like Malema’s, his > career was “flagging”, and he was facing criminal charges for corruption > and assault. Thanks to Marikana, the bad-tempered bishop went from > near-zero to international interviewee in a matter of days. > ** ** > Who else? Lybon Mabasa. Themba Godi. The UDM, party of Bantu Holomisa. > > Marikana is a place where outdated has-beens and never-wases go, perhaps > hoping that the locals will be flattered by their presence, but mainly > hoping to get national and even international media attention. > ** ** > Who else is involved? Joseph Mathunjwa and Jeffrey Mphahlele bought their > tickets to Marikana. Buti Manamela has details of that process in his > speech, according to the Star. > ** ** > Behind all the showboaters and the grandstanders stand the gangsters of > Marikana, who are almost faceless to outsiders. These are the lords of > Marikana's poverty. These are the ones who get paid for delivering the > audience in Marikana to the procession of phoney stars. > ** ** > A different kind of business, for sure. The shacklords do not sell the > show to the audience, but they sell the crowd to the platform, for money. > ** ** > ** ** > ***VC* > > > ****** > > -- > 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] . > -- Fusi M. Motaung tel: 0721207603 | fax: 0865482896 | e-mail: [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] .
