Malema mayhem strikes again
WITH dyspeptic reliability, Julius Malema continues to ratchet up the mayhem ahead of his planned national shutdown or showdown next Monday, March 20.
According to him, it promises to be the real Freedom Day when president Cyril Ramaphosa will resign.
And none other than his marxist brother in-arms, Saftu’s Zwelinzima Vavi, has teamed up with him, lending support to an explosive partnership.
Both are foetal demons turned quislings of the ANC.
Like Siamese twins, they are joined at the umbilical cord of anarchy and destruction, and are adored and worshipped by millions for their eccentricity, daring and capricious behaviour.
Once emissaries of the ruling party, they guarded the ANC like faithful and ferocious pit bulls – but it was not long before they turned on their master.
At one time, both were top snakes in the ANC’s nest of vipers, venomous and full of coiled power.
Fed-up Malema then broke away to form South Africa's third largest political party, the EFF.
In the name of democracy, the South African public has been given a four-day super-long weekend because Tuesday, March 21, is a public holiday.
Provocative, incisive and erudite, both radicals speak in the patios of intimidation and degradation.
Everything about their actions are deliberate, unperturbed and almost euphoric liliputian, and pilgarlic Malema’s voice often booms like the rumble of distant thunder, warning of the violence packed in an approaching storm.
Both have eyes that bore into people’s souls and that could peel paint.
Vavi’s are like twin coals, hot and alive, burning with a dark, happy merriment and warning anyone prepared to get burnt that they were playing with fire.
For the vulnerable and gullible – the unthinking herds of cattle and the sheep of South Africa who haven’t the capacity to lead but only to be led – Malema's voice is political poetry. It is what they want to hear.
It inevitably leads to their slaughter. Where the twin streams of South Africa’s working class and unemployed meet, the EFF casts its nets there.
Like a locust it seeks out the most fertile fields where poverty and illiteracy breed.
The unemployed and the youth are gutted with time and starved of hope.
For the quiescent downtrodden at the lower end of the social spectrum – the bottom-feeders of society – the planned protest activities give them something to look forward to besides the drab and exigencies of daily living.
Mass dissatisfaction in a particular group or area can be exploited by trained agitators to produce a revolt of sorts.
Nationalism is still the cry that rallies the masses on to the side of the plotters.
Both Malema and Vavi prescribe to the theory of dialectal materialism – a Marxist theory that political and historical events are due to the conflict of social forces arising from economic conditions.
But is this all merely scaffolding on a largely unaltered political edifice? For how long can the will of the people be tested?
We saw it in the Arab Spring Revolution.
More recently we saw it in Sri Lanka. And now we are seeing it in Iran.
If one one could get into Parliament and burn it, this makes the US Capitol Hill and the Brazilian parliament revolts look like a joke.
The ANC should stop drying today's clothes in yesterday's sunshine.
Continuing to ignore a dissatisfied populace is a dangerous human chess game to play with deadly consequences.
The success of the planned national shutdown will radically alter the playing fields ahead of next year's general elections, but its failure will send the plotters back to the drawing board of introspection and millions of South Africans will wake up on Human Rights Day, hung-over, and wondering where their dream had gone drowsy in the African sun.