Sunday, March 4, 2012

Analysis: Malema's last arrow in the quiver

Sipho Hlongwane
Daily Maverick, 4 March 2012

So Julius Malema has been booted out of the ANC outright. And that should be that. But he has one lifeline yet, thanks to the mothership’s unending love affair with process – he can try to influence enough delegates at the elective conference at Mangaung to have the verdict against him reviewed, and possibly overturned. But this strategy requires patience and cunning, which may just be a bridge too far for the young, brash Juju.

We’ve often said former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is a lot smarter than the press and the chatteratti have given him credit for. You honestly cannot have so many South Africans in a froth for four long years if you don’t have more brain cells than would cover a small biscuit rattling about in your cranium. You can’t manage to become the single focal point for millions of disaffected young people and you certainly can’t run an organisation as big and as awkward as the ANC Youth League if you don’t know what you’re doing. So no, Malema isn’t dumb. Click here to read more.

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