Julius Malema’s platitudinous and specious calls for the nationalisation of land, then the banks, refer. God knows what the man will come up with next to reveal his intellectual and judgmental depravity. Instead of advocating the creation of a state bank (which will create more employment) to compete with the existing private banks, he like all opportunists and idle minds, opts for simply the solution of taking what has been already created by others. The saddest thing about populist policies advocated by the "leftist" elite is that when they inevitably fail, it’s only the masses that have to pick up the pieces, while these elites retreat and live comfortable lives as if nothing ever happened. Erick Mhlanga Thohoyandou

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