Race and radical rhetoric are Malema’s go-to tools in his pantomime of power
EFF leader Julius Malema and I first met during an interview for the biography I authored of former president Kgalema Motlanthe in 2010. He was then leader of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), but was not brimming with his usual confidence. A reflection of this was the fact that he asked me if his deputy, Floyd Shivambu, could sit in on the interview.
I found this request strange, and when I later informed Motlanthe he smiled wryly and asked if that was really true, assuming I was joking. Never before had an interviewee, especially a political leader, asked if somebody else could join the interview. But that was what happened. I reluctantly acceded...
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