Verdict: stick
THERE is much to be said for a pithy summary of key, current political issues — in the late eighties, Penguin published its excellent forum series — but this offering is a case of publishing anorexia. Its introduction is just 25 pages long, followed by 94 choice quotations from Julius Malema.
Max du Preez and Mandy Rossouw point out that Malema revealed an engaging side when he visited Orania, and that he possessed the courage at Nongoma to challenge successfully the unacceptable idea of Inkatha no-go areas. A lack of formal education is no bar to political acumen.
The lost generation of the apartheid era would inevitably produce someone of political significance and Malema seems to be the man. Perhaps his most alarming characteristic is not what he says, and his habit of threatening arson, murder and mayhem, but the fact that his entire world-view from childhood has lain with the African National Congress. He has known no other life except the party and street politics. Although he apparently phones his granny daily, his is the sort of background that can breed callous dictators.
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The World According to Julius Malema
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