Julius Malema ‘to be expelled’ over Mugabe-statements
29 August 2011
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Johannesburg(ZimEye) The leader of the ANC party’s youth league Julius Malema could be expelled in the next 24 hours after bringing the ANC party into ‘disrepute’.
The ANC Youth League leader was summoned to a high profile disciplinary hearing held today (Monday) and will be conducted on Tuesday.
The disciplinary hearing came after the ANC party issued a statement that Malema had brought the party into disrepute, having attacked Botswana’s President, Ian Khama and issued a number of other anti-Robert Mugabe statements that tainted the sincerity of leader Jacob Zuma’s mediation role for Zimbabwe.

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Speculation was rife on South African radio stations Monday that Malema would be expelled during the hearings which may conclude Tuesday. The ANC leaders said their youth wing had ‘brought the party into disrepute.’
Malema who threatened to remove Botswana’s Ian Khama from presidency this month, on Monday claimed it was his organisation rather than him under the spotlight.
A statement released Monday without mentioning his name or pointing to his leadership stated:
“The ANC Youth League leadership will be appearing before the ANC Disciplinary Hearing from Tuesday, 30th August 2011 to answer to the case that has been brought by the ANC. The ANC YL leadership respects the internal process of the ANC and will at all times be guided by the directives and guidelines of the ANC leadership collective, its policies and Constitution. The ANC Youth League appreciates the massive support we have received from so many South Africans, members of the international community and fraternal organisations.
It has come to our attention through media reports that many people from across the country, the ANC Youth and ANC will descend to Johannesburg to give support to the ANC YL leadership appearing before the ANC Disciplinary Committee from the 30th August 2011. Those who come to pledge support should do so with restraint and show maximum levels of discipline. Any person who will come to Luthuli House to display support should be disciplined, and this applies to the Security Officers of the State at all levels.
The ANC Youth League will never be associated with unruly, disruptive elements and agent provocateurs who want to portray genuine support and solidarity gathering in bad light.”
Analysts believe the public disciplinary measures being undertaken could reflect a desire by Zuma and other party leaders to oust the youth league president, whose provocative outbursts on topics such as race relations and nationalisation of the mining industry are a ‘thorn in their side’.
Meanhwile it was reported that scores of people had sworn to rally behind Malema and would hold a vigil watch Monday night.
(ZimEye- South Africa)

24 Replies to “Julius Malema ‘to be expelled’ over Mugabe-statements”

  1. I am proud to be a South African. Iam proud to call all South Africans my brothers and sisters. From my name you would realise that I am a white male. I do not agree with what is happening in our country. I do not agree with the current political situation where we as South Africans are once again divided into racial groupings. I belief that there is a lot of change that need to happen in our country to effect enpowerment of all our people. To do that we as South Africans must stand together and fight the common enemy of poverty. We need all the help that we can get to achieve true liberation of all our people. We need to develop a policy that is unique to South Africa. The answer to our problems does not lie in Nationalisation of our land or mines. The answer lies in sharing the resourses of our country without destroying ownership. If no one take ownersip all current industries will go to ground and the people of this country will lose even further. We as young people can overcome our difficulties if we are willing to all work together with the common goal to empower all South Africans. Just remember it will not come easy and each and every one will have to earn their way. It means that we will have to unite and work exstremly hard to ensure a better future for all of us and our children. Nationalisation on the other hand will destroy our economy, cause massive loss of employment and steer this country to disaster. One only have to look north to see what nationalisation has done to Zambia. In 1964 Zambia nasionalised all their mines and Agricultural land. It lead to massive de-investment, job losses and hunger. Today 90% of the once productive agricultural land lies unused,neverless the fact that 60% of people in Zambia are unemployed. Food prices has escelated in such a way that the majority of Zambians can not afford to buy basic foodstaple. This neverless the fact that they have access to land. Have you ever thought where we as South Africans will turn to if nationalisation destroys our agricultural sector and we can not buy food? At the same time I do not suggest that we continue on the same path of capitalism. Please lets place our diffrences aside and work together to master the challanges of our times. I therefor can not agree with the current position of the ANCYL in respect to the future of our country.I , however, understand the frustration that people are faced with which give rise to the issue of nationalisation. The answer lies in, we as people in SA, finding an South African solution to ensure that every South African enjoys a humain existence and were no child or adult ever need to go hungry, have access to housing , scooling and clothing. I belief that a mix of capitalism and sosialism will ensure a better life for all of us.
    Remember two wrongs never make a right.
    I hope that JUJU will realise his mistakes and become a leader to all South Africans

  2. Asked about MUAGBE , Joshua NKOMO once said the guy will remeber him when its too late to implement hisideas. Itwas land which the guy implemetned very badly.IT was democracy which he ended up embracing badly.It is his tribal games that have imprisoned him now.HE CANTR LEAVE OFFICE BECAUSE HIS TRIBALGAMES HAVE got him stuck inthe mud.Zimbawqeans should makesure they dont get another leader like this after MUAGBE.Please note that Tsvangirai can do worse than MUGABE.

  3. AS conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the death of Solomon Mujuru, a dark cloud of mistrusts and suspicions never experienced before since ZANU-PF’s formation in 1963 has engulfed the party as both allies and foes of the late commander attempt to unravel circumstances around the retired army general’s gruesome death at his farm on Tuesday last week.
    Not even the late general’s wife, Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s appeal for calm last week could steady the nerves in the fractious ZANU-PF, which is trying to come to terms with the death of a man who was quite instrumental in shaping the direction of the party, before and after the country’s independence in 1980.
    Mujuru’s death has shaken ZANU-PF to the core at a time when the party has lost its monopoly to govern with President Robert Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe for the past three decades, describing the fire that consumed his life as cruel, horrendous and treacherous.
    In fact, the feeling among the movers and shakers in the party is that, for the time being, no one is safe within the top echelons of ZANU-PF until the cause of Mujuru’s untimely death has been established beyond any shred of doubt.
    The more time it takes to satisfactorily conclude the investigations, the more painful it is likely to be for the party, which must go into the next elections united if it is to stand a better chance against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s resurgent Movement for Democratic Change.
    While Mujuru’s death has had the effect of creating alignments and re-alignments within the party along tribal and factional lines, senior ZANU-PF members are sleeping with one eye open, fearing for their lives.
    While Vice-President Mujuru believes investigations should be given a chance, she added currency to the conspiracy theories flying around by raising questions over the manner in which her husband met his tragic death.
    Police sources, however, told The Financial Gazette this week that no stone would be left unturned as they attempt to unravel the jig-saw puzzle around the death of Zimbabwe’s first black army chief.
    Among the conspiracy theories to eme-rge is that there could be a foreign hand involved in Mujuru’s death, either for political or commercial reasons.
    Apart from being a shrewd political schemer, Mujuru had vast commercial interests. The diamond industry, which he was part, is considered among the most dangerous investments one can venture into.
    Not helping the suspicions are revelations that plans by relatives of the late national hero to fly in forensic experts and pathologists from South Africa were thwarted as State personnel on the ground insisted on handling the complex investigations into the demise of the late retired general on their own.
    The late retired army commander, who was interred at the national shrine last Saturday, was burnt beyond recognition inside his farmhouse in Beatrice, about 60 kilometres outside the capital, last week.
    Sources said a close relative of the Mujurus had offered to engage forensic experts and pathologists from South Africa to lead in the investigations upon hearing the news about the retired general’s death.
    They said close family members had been contacted by the relative who called from his overseas base with specific instructions not to allow anyone to enter the property before the arrival of the experts whom he had hoped would comb through the scene of the tragedy in order to establish the exact cause behind the death of the late ZANU-PF politburo member. This was meant to avoid the possibility of tempering with the evidence.
    But sources said the idea could not find takers.
    Police say they have so far interviewed 23 people including police officers, private guards and soldiers that guarded the front entrance of the farm as well as a maid of the Mujurus.
    But without the assistance of foreign experts, it is feared that the ongoing probe, involving the police, military and State security agents, could reach a dead end.
    This is particularly so considering that previous investigations into suspicious accidents involving key figures have not yielded anything fruitful.
    National police spokesperson, Wayne Bvudzijena, this week said he was not aware of any request to bring in forensic experts and pathologists from South Africa.
    “I can’t talk of whether the police will allow (them to bring the experts) or not because I am not sure of the request; but if it was brought to my attention, then maybe I could respond based on the situation at hand,” he said.
    Asked when the investigations could be concluded, Bvudzijena said there was no specific deadline to complete the probe.
    “We cannot give a timeframe for the investigations. We are still looking into the matter. What happens is that something might crop up, which needs further probing, but what I should assure you is that we are applying ourselves fully in the investigation and various teams are doing their work,” said Bvudzijena.
    He said the police cannot release information based on individual reports compiled by experts from ZESA, forensic scientists and other experts because the whole investigation has to be condensed into a single report.
    What seems to have heightened suspicious around the death were remarks by Vice-President Mujuru, who on Tuesday called for a thorough probe a week after she had appealed for calm.
    On the fateful day, it is said that there was no electricity at the farmhouse. This has left many people wondering how this could be considering that the power utility, ZESA, is not supposed to cut off electricity to VIPs.
    ZESA had sent in its internal investigators after suggestions were made that the fire that consumed Mujuru could have been caused by an electrical fault triggered when power was restored.
    The farm house and other properties in the area were said to have experienced load-shedding between about 5pm and 8.55pm the previous night.
    Fullard Gwasira, the ZESA spokesperson, told The Financial Gazette on Tuesday that the farm of the late Mujuru experienced a power outage because it fell in the category of users not covered under critical institutions such as State Houses, airports, hospitals and border posts.
    “We do not have a VVIP (Very Very Important Person) list for electricity. What we have are dedicated feeders for national strategic institutions and not individuals because we do not have the infrastructure. It is regrettable that because of lack of infrastructure, individual households or consumers have to share the electricity we have at that particular time,” said Gwasira.
    While Zimbabweans hope that no foul play was involved in Mujuru’s horrific death, the manner in which he met his death has raised more questions than answers.
    Questions continue to be raised on why the late general failed to collect his mobile phone, groceries and some other personal belongings found inside his car the following morning? Could it be that Mujuru was ambushed before he could get the opportunity to retrieve his personal belongings from his Isuzu double cab?
    How can the country’s most decorated soldier, who survived the brutal Ian Smith regime (with all its firepower), before moulding the defence forces after independence in 1980 into a formidable force that it is today, fail to escape an inferno? Why did he opt for the main door, way down the corridor, as an escape route instead of the windows that, from the pictures shown in the media, had no burglar bars?
    His widow has raised similar questions. On Tuesday, she said: “The set up that we had is that in the western part of the bedroom there are two large windows from my side and from his side, but if you want to go out for an emergency, you don’t have to jump out, but you just lift your leg and you are out there. And our little grandchildren, we used to joke with them; instead of coming through the normal door, they would jump into our bedroom using those windows and we used to laugh about it.”
    But if at all Mujuru had succeeded to reach the main door, since his body was found closer to the main entrance, why didn’t he bolt out of the fire to safety? Could it be that he had forgotten the keys to the main door in his bedroom, where the fire is said to have started?
    While the investigations will help provide answers to these questions, conspiracy theorists are already feeding on these gray areas.
    They suspect it could be that the retired general was eliminated by his rivals or burglars that could have broken into his farmhouse or rather he was dumped in his house before it was set on fire in order to destroy any evidence.
    Assuming this was the case, the manner it was done exposes the ruthlessness and cowardice of the perpetrators as they went overboard in accomplishing their evil deeds. Surely, did Mujuru deserve to die that way?
    A larger-than-life character and military supremo by any measure, Mujuru was humiliated in death to the point where he joined his fellow comrades at the National Heroes Acre almost in ashes.
    Conspiracy theorists also allege that the damage to the farmhouse was not consistent with structural damages caused by an electrical fault nor an ordinary fire, especially one caused by a candle as is being alleged in some quarters.
    Why also, they ask, should a husband of the Vice-President of the Republic, whom some alleged was the de-facto second in command, have little or no security at all around him?
    It is this sort of speculation around his gruesome death that is giving currency to suspicions that his death could have been a result of the dirty politics within ZANU-PF.
    A number of senior ZANU-PF officials have died mysterious deaths over the years. During the liberation struggle, parcel bombs or petrol bombs were used to eliminate opponents: Could it therefore be that the infighting within the revolutionary party has regressed more than three decades backwards?
    Significantly, Mujuru’s death coincides with the emotive debate about change within the fractious ZANU-PF.
    Mujuru had long been touted as the driving force behind his wife’s ascendance. His demise, unless an equally versatile cadre emerges to fill his big shoes, has robbed his so-called faction of a dynamic driver. In other words, his wife, Joice, is weaker without him.
    But, of course, other critics say the incident might draw a ground-swell of political sympathies in her favour as well as galvanise other members of the faction.
    Yet others say President Mugabe will not be as stronger as before without his trusted retired general. Mujuru, they say, had no ambitions to be at the top, but was only interested in influencing President Mugabe’s successor in the event that his Commander-in-Chief so decides to pass the baton.
    In less than five months, the ageing ZANU-PF leader has lost three of his most trusted allies, namely, Edgar Tekere, Mernard Muzariri and now Mujuru.

  4. I WILL FIGHT ON – – JOICE MUJURU
    August 30, 2011 by newsdzezimbabwe
    VICE President Joice Mujuru says she will continue emulating the works of her late husband Retired General Solomon Mujuru.
    Speaking to a delegation from the United Methodist Church at her residence yesterday, VP Mujuru said she would not give up the good works that her late husband was doing.
    “I always ask myself how I am going to do the things that my husband was doing. However, I believe God is going to show me the way.I told myself that a real soldier should not be found with a bullet at the back. If you are found with a bullet at the back it means that you were shot while running away.
    “A real soldier should be found with a bullet in the front to show that you were fighting, that is what I have decided to do. Handisi kuzodonhedza mukombe kana kuti baton stick yanga iina VaMujuru.
    “People have given testimonies about what kind of a person he was and I am going to emulate that,” she said.
    VP Mujuru said it was important for the church to visit people who would have lost their loved ones so that they would not feel lonely.
    She said they were still waiting for the outcome of investigations into Gen Mujuru’s death.
    “Zvatakanzwa ndizvozvo. Nyaya iripo ndiyoyo, takangomirira kuti vana mazvikokota vafambe nenyaya iyi vagotitsetsenurira kuti zvingava zvakaitika ndezvipi nekuti pane dzimwe nguva unogona kumboti pamunhondo, pamusasa kana kutombowira mumvura, wozoti aah.
    “What is important is that we remain united, like what we saw during the funeral,” she said.
    She said Rtd Gen Mujuru had a lot of friends from all corners of the world with some of them having visited to console her.
    United Methodist Church Bishop, Eben Nhiwatiwa encouraged VP Mujuru to put her trust in the Lord.
    He said God was the only one who could console her and provide her with the comfort that Gen Mujuru used to provide her.
    “You should put your trust in the Lord in everything you do. God will never forsake you and he will guide you both at work and at church.
    “We are indebted to you because you left this country to free the whole nation and not only your family. We don’t want you to be stressed because you did a great job for the country,” he said.
    The delegation was led by Chief of Protocol in the President’s Office, Ambassador Munyaradzi Kajese.
    Meanwhile, police investigations into the death of Gen Mujuru have entered the second week amid reports that investigators are still reconciling evidence.

  5. juju haana kwanoenda ndimi muchatofenda nekuti iye ane mbiri kudarika j z saka vakamudzinga atoita opposition iri strong kudarika mdc chaiyo

  6. BIG MOUTH ..AIRHEAD ..DAFT UGLY JULIUS…A DANGER TO SOUTHERN AFRICA S DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE…MAN OF LITTLE MINDS WITH LOUD VOICE

  7. Malema’s millitancy would be handy where it is called for. However, habitually and unnecessarily stepping on ‘Big people’s toes’ and failing to let some things pass where to do so would hardly harm anyone, shall be his downfall.
    The Ethiopians are said to have a proverb to the following effect: the hyena that outpaces the rest in a chase will try to bite the prey’s head and get gored in the process. Taking it a bit easy would save Malema a lot of trouble, and would at the same time save many people a lot of annoyance.

  8. Va Malema dai vaizvininipisa pamberi pevakuruvakuru, zvino ivo havambokendengi kuti ndiani, vanongotaura chero zvavada chero kunaani nani zvake.
    Zvinonetsera pakuti vakuru vakagumbuka vanorova neshamhu, saka handishamiswe kunzwa kuti vakuru va Malema vambomushwapura shwapura, ndakagara ndazviwona kuti zvichazoitika. Akapotsa shamhu apa, ngaadzidze kubata muromo kubva ipapo, akaramba ari nhubu, shamhu haisi kuzomupotsa muhupenyu hwake. Ndinopika nasekuru vangu varere ku Chivhumudhara!!

  9. This title is lying and deliberately misleading. Malema is not being disciplined for his support for Mugabe. The ANC has a partnership now with Zanupf to support each other. They support each other as former liberation movements, so how could the ANC oppose any of its members for supporting a sister organisation? He is just being cautioned so that enemies of the ANC will not use him against the movement. He cant be expelled. Where have you seen a mass party expelling anyone? The Anc can still loose its political popularity b y ther way.

  10. SA is rich so is Zimbabwe iwe Icho but in Zimbabwe the wealth is in the hands of the Zezurus full stop.Read between the lines .Malema is a foll who speaks ZANU politics.Its unfortunate he follows a party that was an enemy of the ANC.iF THEY ARE NOT CAREFULL HE WILL BRING TRILLIONS TO sa, look for diesel from rocks and cholera will spread..he has a ZANU mentality..the most foolish party in AFRICA.. Infact calling it a party is doing them good , because they are a splinter group of tribalists who broke away from ZAPU and messed up the country full time.What they know is tribalism and violance against unarmed defencelss civillians.

  11. the man is corrupt to the core…he proclaims the inequities of others to take attention away from his own corrupt tender practices…do u honestly believe a man with no real qualification in life can be so rich so young?

  12. Julius arikenge,SA is wealthy bt who is eating more.However Juli is not the right man for the job.He is good as an activist nothing more.

  13. Uyu ndiye Chinotimba wemu SA chaiye. Kungowawata usati wafunga kuti mashoko angu achazovei. Teach him a lesson. Ndizvo zvinoita munhu akapiwa chinzwimbo chaasinga kodzeri. He was exposing himself too much.

  14. Julius “ceasor”. I believe you are fighting a battle that i can cherrish. A war that was never completed. Democracy thats in books,soverrenity for a few.to leave the SA Man in poverty.what is he without LAND?.

  15. if this guy is expelled thats the end of him.they will prosecute him,humiliate him and take away all the glamour lifestyle.rotten idiot.

  16. He should never have been allowed to stay on as Leader of Youth whatever as all he seems to preach about is “killing and robbing” If he goes it won’t be a day too early, good riddance. So?

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