South Africa: SHOCKING: MUGABE ALERT! ANC Youth Vow to Follow Zanu PF's Footsteps - Intimidation coming to SA[Just look at this folks. Here we see the ANC Youth League willing to kill and intimidate and follow in the footsteps of Mugabe's ZANU PF Youth League. These are Mugabe's foot soldiers and the ANC is now calling them to action.
This is as good a declaration of war as you'll get. Jan]
By Alex Bell
South Africa's ANC Youth League (ANC-YL) has vowed to follow ZANU PF's destructive policies, lauding both the land 'reform' programme and the new indigenisation law as successful 'empowerment' tools.
The youth leagues president, Julius Malema, was addressing a press conference in South Africa in the wake of his weekend trip to Zimbabwe 'to learn lessons on nationalisation' from ZANU PF. Malema told reporters that his delegation learnt a lot about how a country could be run without the interference of so-called "imperialists". He also applauded Robert Mugabe on his land reform programme, saying it had helped empower hundreds of Zimbabweans. He then added that the ruling ANC's leadership, headed by President Jacob Zuma, should not be afraid of implementing the same policy.
"Our option is to push through very aggressive militant radical policies in the ANC which will ultimately become policies of the government and the ANC should not be scared," he said.
South Africa's white farmers have already been warned to brace themselves for Zimbabwe style land invasions, warnings which are so far being dismissed as 'divisive' tactics by government supporters. But analyst Luke Zunga said South Africa should be very concerned by the rhetoric coming from Malema, highlighting the recent spate of killings of white farmers as a worrying sign.
"Malema is speaking the same language as Mugabe and we can all see now what Mugabe has done to Zimbabwe," Zunga said. "South Africa is looking down a bad path if they allow Malema's rhetoric to become action."
It was during Malema's visit that Empowerment Minister Kasukuwere, who is spearheading the controversial indigenisation act, threatened to close Zimbabwe's foreign owned mines. Kasukuwere has dismissed an offer by Zimplats (a major mining firm in the country) to set aside ten percent of their shareholding for indigenous Zimbabweans as "crazy, retrogressive and unacceptable." The number falls short of the 51% that Kasukuwere has envisioned in an indigenisation act that analysts have warned is a major threat to Zimbabwe's economic recovery.
"I'm going to meet them (Zimplats officials) on their proposal which is very crazy," he told Malema and his delegation on Sunday night. "If we can't mine the minerals, let them close; we will mine when we can."
Delegates from ZANU PF and Malema's entourage reportedly held a heated meeting with Zimplats officials on Sunday morning, which nearly turned violent when ZANU PF youths demanded change at the company. Malema said later he would not have intervened if the youths had assaulted Zimplats officials, calling Kasukuwere's plans 'militant but very correct'.
"Those who are opposed to the act must go and die," Kasukuwere said. "We have no reverse gear in our gearbox. If there is an insane Zimbabwean who is opposed to that he must go and die."
Analyst Zunga said Kasukuwere threats demonstrate that the indigenisation act has nothing to do with empowerment and all to do with control and greed.
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