Julius Malema: SA’s worst judge of character
Volte-face Malema reveals himself to be as easily hoodwinked as his party and hypocritical in condemning Zuma’s poor judgment, writes Gareth van Onselen
With all the panache of someone who has picked up the wrong item in a supermarket, Julius Malema was at pains on Monday to explain his party had got it badly wrong in supporting the appointment of Busisiwe Mkhwebane as public protector. It took an hour for him to get there, but when the question was eventually asked he let fly. "That is a terrible mistake we have done," he said. Malema has a singular approach to errors of judgment. It involves summoning such levels of contempt and regret that, by the time he is done, the vitriol he pumps out has long since made you forget the party failed, and has almost entirely sucked you into his world of vicious condemnation. He was in fine form on Monday. "We didn’t know what we were doing. Now we regret that thing. We regret it. South Africa we regret supporting this comrade. She is going to collapse that office."Then the venom flowed, peppered with Malema’s usual rhetorical barbs: Mkhwebane misled Parliament, she’s an agent of the Guptas ("a ...
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