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The lies in support of the party president, Malema, and deputy president, Shivambu, are in direct conflict with findings by Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests published on Monday. They can easily be proved wrong.
Nathan Geffen is the editor of GroundUp. From 2000 to 2013 he was alternately the treasurer, national manager and policy director of the Treatment Action Campaign. He is the author of Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign.
Bad blood between minister and NLC board may jeopardise multibillion-rand lottery process just months before current licence expires.
This article aims to explain, from an anarchist / syndicalist perspective, the rapid rise and fall of Julius Malema, the controversial and corrupt multi-millionaire leader of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) “youth league” (ANCYL). It is demonstrated that Malema’s posturing as radical champion of the black poor was simply a means to an end: rising higher in the ranks of the ANC, in order to access bigger state tenders and higher paying political office.