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S.African Police booted Malema out of Marikana

North West – Julius Malema was sent packing under police escort from strife-torn Marikana on Monday, and threatened with arrest if he didn’t leave the area at once. Malema and his entourage had arrived in two cars at Wonderkop stadium … read more »

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Malema, Marikana and Mugabe

Branded a demagogue by his critics, South African youth leader Julius Malema is seen as using the Marikana killings – the most deadly police action since white minority rule ended 18 years ago – to resuscitate his political career. Mr … read more »

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Marikana, Malema, rebellion, revolution

South Africa is a land where any bizarre conspiracy theory can flourish with the help of state intelligence agents at the behest of their political masters. Instead of trying to stave off crime and social unrest, police intelligence agents are … read more »

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South Africa: Malema calls for national strike

Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema called for a national strike at all mines on Tuesday until the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) leadership steps down. “There must be a national strike at all the mines until Frans Baleni … read more »

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South Africa: Don’t hijack labour disputes – Zuma

President Jacob Zuma has called on “politicians” to resist the temptation to “hijack” labour disputes for their own purposes. In a lecture delivered in Kimberley in the Northern Cape at the weekend, Zuma spoke about attempts to restore peace at … read more »

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south Africa: ‘Only blacks killed at Marikana’

South Africa should question why no whites were among those killed in the Marikana shootout, the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) said on Saturday. “We must be worried that 100 percent of those shot were black,” ANC Youth League president Ronald … read more »

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Mines, Malema and Mangaung: South Africa’s descent into a morass of corruption, greed and factionalism

By Keith Somerville I’ve just returned from a couple of weeks in South Africa. It was supposed to be a holiday dominated by the Big Five on the safari circuit.  But owing to the current news coming out of the … read more »

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South Africa: Marikana Mine tragedy: Media coverage, agenda setting

Tapiwa Gomo, newsday South Africa is a very fast country. A week that started with the Marikana Mine shooting and the death of dozens of people ended with headlines on the death of Solly, the hippo. How the death of … read more »

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Apartheid law for Lonmin miners

It has emerged that police have resurrected old apartheid legislation to hold the 270 Lonmin miners responsible for the murder of their fellow workers. The men’s case has been postponed to 6 September while police investigate further. They face a … read more »

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South Africa: Malema arrives at Aurora mine

Johannesburg – Ululation, whistles and jubilation marked expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema’s arrival at the Aurora mine in Grootvlei, Springs on Thursday. Workers sang “Ngisebenzela izingane zami emgodini” (I’m working for my kids in the mine). Malema arrived in a … read more »

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Echoes of 1917 in South Africa

MARTIN HUTCHINSON,Reuters South Africa’s mining-related unrest has a kind of prerevolutionary feel. The poor have gained little in 18 years of democracy. The gulf with the rich is huge, growth isn’t what it could be, and the African National Congress … read more »

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South African Malema will return – ANCYL

Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will return to the organisation, league deputy president Ronald Lamola said on Monday. “We still believe he is going to come back and we will raise this at the conference,” Lamola told reporters … read more »

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South Africa: Marikana – What Price Will Zuma Pay?

analysis Johannesburg — There is no shortage of examples of Jacob Zuma’s leadership weaknesses, from bad appointments in key positions to dawdling over decisions and presiding over policy uncertainty. But it will be a real push, even for his harshest … read more »

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South Africa mine killings could hurt Zuma ahead of vote

South African’s President Jacob Zuma rose to power as a man of the people but seemed a world away from the masses when he stood in a suit under a parasol to speak to destitute miners about the deadliest police … read more »

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South Africa fury over shooting tests Zuma

(CNN) — An official national day of mourning in South Africa on Thursday, called by President Jacob Zuma to memorialize the lives of dozens of miners mowed down in a police fusillade one week ago, turned into an opportunity by … read more »

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South Africa: ANCYL denies Juju, Lamola spat

The ANCYL has denied reports that its deputy president Ronald Lamola will be removed from his position after a disagreement with its expelled president Julius Malema. “We dismiss this rumour with the contempt it deserves and we are well aware … read more »

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Zuma visits miners – video

Listening to their president, who had finally come to meet them after their mining community erupted in violence, the crowd was silent and subdued. Jacob Zuma came to tell the men of the Marikana platinum mine in Rustenberg, South Africa, … read more »

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South Africa: the politics of massacre

By Gwynne Dyer Forty-eight hours after South African police killed 34 striking miners last Thursday, Julius Malema showed up at the Lonmin platinum mine north of Johannesburg to assign the blame. “President Zuma said to the police they must act … read more »

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‘Zuma murdered our people’, Says Malema

Former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema on Sunday called for President Jacob Zuma and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa to step down. Malema, addressing striking workers, said Zuma did not do anything to prevent the killings at the Lonmin mine … read more »

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South African President Jacob Zuma ‘must step down’

President Jacob Zuma and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa must resign following the death of mineworkers at Lonmin’s Marikana operations, in the North West, expelled ANC Youth League President Julius Malema said on Saturday. “President Zuma decided over the massacre of … read more »

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‘South Africa govt responsible for mine deaths’

Johannesburg: Julius Malema, the former president of the African National Congress youth wing, on Saturday said that South African police had no right to fire the live bullets that killed 34 miners this week. “They had no right to shoot,” … read more »

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Zuma will be voted out of Office in December, Says Malema

Former ANCYL president Julius Malema says his expulsion from the ANC will be automatically overturned when President Jacob Zuma is voted out of office in December, it was reported on Tuesday. Malema, who was being interviewed on the BBC’s World … read more »

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S.Africa: Winnie won’t be drawn on ‘garbage’

“I do not respond to megalomaniac garbage.” This was the angry response by ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as she avoided a public spat with Deputy Minister of Communications Stella Tembisa Ndabeni. Madikizela-Mandela spoke to The Star after visiting award-winning veteran … read more »

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I will kill for Malema…Maybe not!

hobotain Malema is not fooling me….. When Malema was first elected to become the President of the ANCYL, he was herald as a radical young man who will take over the reigns from Fikile Mbalula. ANCYL has for many years … read more »

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S.Africa: Deputy minister slaps Winnie on Facebook: report

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was not a saint and was wrong to criticise President Jacob Zuma’s polygamous lifestyle, said deputy communications minister Stella Ndabeni, according to a report on Monday. Ndabeni took to social media and slated Madikizela-Mandela’s latest criticism of Zuma’s … read more »

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Malema ‘moered’ with Moët – SMS

Johannesburg – Julius Malema was left nursing his wounds after he was reportedly injured at a friend’s wedding earlier this month – by flying bottles of his favourite French bubbly. An SMS was circulated after the wedding. It read, “Malema … read more »

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South Africa: Winnie Mandela blasts ANC

The struggle veteran, in a letter addressed to party spokesman Jackson Mthembu, blasted the ANC, saying: “We [the Mandela family] only matter when we have to be used for some agenda.” A clearly hurt and livid Madikizela-Mandela wrote the letter … read more »

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South Africa’s land issue not so simple

By John Campbell, CFR.org Zuma must walk a fine line, especially on land. Much or most of South Africa’s land remains in the hands of whites, and land reform proceeds at a snail’s pace — making it a source of … read more »

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Today in South Africa

Five miners died from smoke inhalation at a Gold Fields mine as they worked underground, the company said on Sunday. The deaths are a setback for the government and the industry as they try to improve safety and reduce fatalities … read more »

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‘ANCYL saved Zuma from prison’

Johannesburg – The ANCYL saved President Jacob Zuma from a prison sentence, expelled league president Julius Malema claims in an interview published in the Sunday Times. Malema was not convinced the “spy tapes”, cited as the reason that corruption charges … read more »

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