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Jacob Zuma warns ANC to halt racial anger

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The South African president, Jacob Zuma, moved yesterday to calm racial tensions after the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), was blamed on inflammatory remarks that were made by one of Zuma’s own party officials.

Zuma ordered Julius Malema, 28, leader of the African National Congress (ANC) youth league, to shut up after it emerged that only 48 hours before the killing, Malema had showered praise on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and called for the nationalisation of white-owned farms.
The president described Malema’s conduct as alien to the culture of their party. “The ANC youth league is not an independent body. It exists within the umbrella policy and discipline of the ANC,” he declared. He added a warning to all the ANC’s leaders to “think before they speak, as their utterances have wider implications for the country”.
Terreblanche, 69, was the latest victim of a wave of farm murders which has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 farmers in 15 years. At his funeral on Friday there was talk of retaliation against Malema. Members of the AWB say he is ultimately responsible for their leader’s murder.
“Malema is a racist pig and will pay for this,” said an AWB supporter. “We believe his agenda to nationalise white-owned farms would lead to civil war and famine.”
During a visit to Harare earlier this month, Malema, arguably the country’s most controversial politician, congratulated Mugabe’s henchmen for seizing white-owned land and encouraged them to grab the remaining property. He then suggested that South Africa should adopt Mugabe’s policies.
Accompanied by the singing of the Zulu freedom song Kill the Boer, he said: “In South Africa we are just starting. Here in Zimbabwe you are already very far” — a reference to Mugabe’s disastrous programme of land seizures which has left southern Africa’s former bread basket unable to feed itself.
Zuma, who once described Malema as a future leader of South Africa, is believed to protect him because his 6m young members ensure that the ANC keeps its finger on the pulse of the townships.
Malema has prospered since becoming the leader of the youth league. A township child who was brought up by a single mother, he showed few signs of academic prowess. At school he even failed his woodwork exam, although he claims to have won a high school debating competition.
He now lives in a £700,000 penthouse in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Sandton and drives a customised Range Rover. He boasts a Louis Vuitton attache case, a choice of Rolex and Breitling watches and Gucci outfits.
South African newspapers claim he is a multimillionaire and his wealth has been accrued even though he had no previous employment before joining the youth league.
He has benefited from several lucrative tenders linked to World Cup infrastructure improvements, including roads, sewerage works and bridges near Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, which will host three of the qualifying games.
He is a director of SGL, an engineering firm that has won more than £12m in public tenders in just two years, according to documents at South Africa’s Companies House. SGL and its subsidiaries have been awarded more than 30 local government contracts since 2003. Such is the scale of Malema’s public sector contracts that he has been dubbed South Africa’s most famous millionaire “tenderpreneur”.
Malema has responded to criticism of his financial dealings. “There is no law that says politicians can’t be businessmen,” he told a reporter from The Sunday Times of Johannesburg. “The problem with you is that when an African child is emerging and becoming successful, that is when you have a problem. That is your major problem that causes you sleepless nights. You want to see us dying in poverty. That is what you are committed to.”
According to Grant Walliser, a political commentator, Malema is unleashing forces of hate that will be hard to control. “He tacitly assures his followers of government solidarity in any aggression towards white farmers and white business,” Walliser wrote. “He polarises our society and he does it for personal gain.”
The government is anxious to present an image of racial harmony during the World Cup this summer, but other commentators share Walliser’s concern at the racial anger stirred up by Malema.
South Africa’s white-dominated farming unions have greeted the threat of nationalisation with alarm. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, when multi-racial elections were held, 15m acres of farmland have been transferred to black ownership.
Much of it is now lying idle, creating no economic benefit for the nation nor its new owners. Last year South Africa became a net importer of food for the first time in its history.
According to Mpowele Swathe, the opposition Democratic Alliance spokesman on rural development, Malema is damaging hopes of attracting foreign investment.

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<h1>Jacob Zuma warns ANC to halt racial anger</h1> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_zinsser.aspx'>zinsser</a> Zuma ordered Julius Malema, 28, leader of the African National Congress (ANC) youth league, to shut up after it emerged that only 48 hours before the killing, Malema had showered praise on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and called for the nationalisation of white-owned farms.
The president described Malema’s conduct as alien to the culture of their party. “The ANC youth league is not an independent body. It exists within the umbrella policy and discipline of the ANC,” he declared. He added a warning to all the ANC’s leaders to “think before they speak, as their utterances have wider implications for the country”.
Terreblanche, 69, was the latest victim of a wave of farm murders which has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 farmers in 15 years. At his funeral on Friday there was talk of retaliation against Malema. Members of the AWB say he is ultimately responsible for their leader’s murder.
“Malema is a racist pig and will pay for this,” said an AWB supporter. “We believe his agenda to nationalise white-owned farms would lead to civil war and famine.”
During a visit to Harare earlier this month, Malema, arguably the country’s most controversial politician, congratulated Mugabe’s henchmen for seizing white-owned land and encouraged them to grab the remaining property. He then suggested that South Africa should adopt Mugabe’s policies.
Accompanied by the singing of the Zulu freedom song Kill the Boer, he said: “In South Africa we are just starting. Here in Zimbabwe you are already very far” — a reference to Mugabe’s disastrous programme of land seizures which has left southern Africa’s former bread basket unable to feed itself.
Zuma, who once described Malema as a future leader of South Africa, is believed to protect him because his 6m young members ensure that the ANC keeps its finger on the pulse of the townships.
Malema has prospered since becoming the leader of the youth league. A township child who was brought up by a single mother, he showed few signs of academic prowess. At school he even failed his woodwork exam, although he claims to have won a high school debating competition.
He now lives in a £700,000 penthouse in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Sandton and drives a customised Range Rover. He boasts a Louis Vuitton attache case, a choice of Rolex and Breitling watches and Gucci outfits.
South African newspapers claim he is a multimillionaire and his wealth has been accrued even though he had no previous employment before joining the youth league.
He has benefited from several lucrative tenders linked to World Cup infrastructure improvements, including roads, sewerage works and bridges near Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, which will host three of the qualifying games.
He is a director of SGL, an engineering firm that has won more than £12m in public tenders in just two years, according to documents at South Africa’s Companies House. SGL and its subsidiaries have been awarded more than 30 local government contracts since 2003. Such is the scale of Malema’s public sector contracts that he has been dubbed South Africa’s most famous millionaire “tenderpreneur”.
Malema has responded to criticism of his financial dealings. “There is no law that says politicians can’t be businessmen,” he told a reporter from The Sunday Times of Johannesburg. “The problem with you is that when an African child is emerging and becoming successful, that is when you have a problem. That is your major problem that causes you sleepless nights. You want to see us dying in poverty. That is what you are committed to.”
According to Grant Walliser, a political commentator, Malema is unleashing forces of hate that will be hard to control. “He tacitly assures his followers of government solidarity in any aggression towards white farmers and white business,” Walliser wrote. “He polarises our society and he does it for personal gain.”
The government is anxious to present an image of racial harmony during the World Cup this summer, but other commentators share Walliser’s concern at the racial anger stirred up by Malema.
South Africa’s white-dominated farming unions have greeted the threat of nationalisation with alarm. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, when multi-racial elections were held, 15m acres of farmland have been transferred to black ownership.
Much of it is now lying idle, creating no economic benefit for the nation nor its new owners. Last year South Africa became a net importer of food for the first time in its history.
According to Mpowele Swathe, the opposition Democratic Alliance spokesman on rural development, Malema is damaging hopes of attracting foreign investment.

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