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JUSTICE MALALA: No party for young men
Worldwide, youthful voters are choosing against leaders who have run out of ideas — and time. Julius Malema could have inspired his followers with this vision. Instead, he remains in the past
If you looked below the noise and histrionics of the EFF’s national conference (they had a self-aggrandising name for it — “national people’s assembly”) last week you would have realised that it was a battle between the past and the future. It was a contest between remaining a splinter of a decaying ANC or being a possible ruling party.
Julius Malema’s actions in the run-up to the conference, and during the shindig, show that he has chosen to stay in the past, to continue to swim in the slipstream of the ANC and not to strike out boldly to speak to the core of his base, which is South Africa’s marginalised and increasingly restless youth...
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