Saturday, 28 April 2012

Is this the end for Malema ?


The ANC’s national disciplinary committee of appeals confirmed Julius Malema's expulsion from the party.

 He was found to have done many hostile things from comparing Zuma’s leadership style to remarks about regime change in Botswana. The final straw came when he was rude and made reference to Zuma to being a ‘dictator’
The ruling basically means that Malema will no longer be president of the ANC Youth League.

Malema who was elected president of the ANC Youth League in April 2008 at a chaotic conference in Bloemfontein, will be remembered for a lot of comments /quotes that would leave people to discuss robustly about issues in South Africa.
The ‘bloody agent ‘and’ chacharac’ comments  he made to a BBC reported during a media briefing will left the world questioning his leadership skills .

After being found guilty and fined R10 000, he was also made to apologise publicly and attend anger management classes, which didn’t happen.  

According to Professor Susan Booysen , "He is 40 years younger than the current ANC leadership. If he doesn't burn himself out, there is a good chance he will have a political future," she said.

There is a lot of fractions within the ANC as the race to Mangaung continues and it may just appear that the ousting of Malema was another strategy to get rid and silence him as he sometimes said

"We know that undemocratic processes are those that are intolerant to different views, those that use state power to deal with those that disagree," Malema said.

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Real men don't rape


The recent report of the young woman that was raped in Soweto has sparked a debate amongst communities as to who’s role and responsibility is it to raise 'real men '.

 Boys are permitted some sexual license and knowledge about sex but they are rarely provided with the information, counsel or guidance on issues of sexuality that they need.


“A young woman has more chances of being raped than reading a book “.This was said by rape survivor Jess Foord, at the International Woman’s Day that was held at and Diakonia Council of Churches.

This is a sad reality for a lot of us young woman who will be mothers one day. One would think that as men were built strong, in physic their role would to protect ,to guard ,to secure a woman .But this was not the case with the young woman from Soweto, instead it was ‘minors ' that had participated. It was boys that she probably considers to be her ‘little’ brothers that did this act.
 City Press editor Natasha Joseph  said in an article (What makes our young men brutal monsters?) ,”
It’s far easier to speculate about what’s wrong with women than to ask hard questions about what we’re doing to create so many monsters out of so many men”.