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Sunday, July 24th, 2011 |
The million Rand question today is of course where Julius Malema gets his money from to fund his lavish lifestyle.
Malema tried to get a court interdict to stop City Press from publishing the results of their findings, but lost the battle. He has to pay the court costs.
Another expense to be deducted from the R20 000 – R25 000 a month he earns from the ANC Youth League.
Add that to the rates he must be paying for a R4 million house in Sandown, Gauteng, amenities bills, petrol, food, jewellery, child support, etc. Then what’s left over for renovations at a cost of R16 million?
Shame, poor Julius!
City Press though claims Malema is getting more than just a salary. (Actually anyone with half a brain knows that.) Now though there seems to be proof, in the form of The Ratanang Family Trust of which Julius is the only trustee.
Funny that…
But who is paying money into the trust’s ABSA bank account?
There seems to be truth in the claims of rewards being paid to the trust for assisting business people with getting tenders, but would that add up to R16 million for a house alone?
(BTW, I wonder if Julius also receives those constant e-mails from ABSA asking him to verify his login details.)
My colleague and I have been speculating for a while that Julius Malema is a mere puppet for someone who wants more political power. And the name of a certain rich Minister who wanted to be president after Nelson Mandela, keeps cropping up.
Who knows.
Malema must think Bantu education robbed all of us of the ability to do Maths. Or he is so supremely arrogant that he doesn’t even care what anyone thinks of his obvious display of wealth.
Either way, Julius Malema is once again under media scrutiny. This should be fun!
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Monday, July 18th, 2011 |
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Friday, June 24th, 2011 |
So last night Julius Malema on e-tv news, fresh from being re-elected ANC Youth League president, apologised to the Jacob Zuma’s rape accussor (and all the women of South Africa).
He is apparently sorry for saying she enjoyed being raped. Of course he was ordered to do so by Human Rights Commission and also ordered to pay a fine of R50 000 as retribution.
But, he concluded, his apology did not stretch as far as DA spokesperson Lindiwe Mazibuko.
He apologised to all the women of South Africa, but not to that tea girl, he said on the news.
Because she only says what her madam tells her; she doesn’t have a mind of her own.
During pre-local election campaigning, he also called her out in the media, refusing to debate with a tea girl, claiming he would only debate with her madam Helen Zille.
As amusing as I find the comments, it does make me wonder about Julius Malema’s motives.
Could our Julius have a little school ground crush on the very colonial sounding Ms Lindiwe Mazibuko?
Could she represent the clever girl at high school who was way out of his league and who he teased mercilessly just to get a bit of her attention?
Be a man! Time to own up Julius!
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 |
My sister and I went to our old neighbourhood to cast our votes today.
We chatted in the car about Patricia de Lille – my sister votes for her regardless of which party she is in.
As we arrived in the neighbourhood, my sister asked if I knew who the candidates are. I didn’t.
“It’s uncle M.” An old neighbour.
And lo and behold, there was his poster – an ANC one! Thank goodness I could vote for someone I know!
So we saw and chatted with some old neighbours, which was fun.
We were in and out of the polling station in no time at all. No queues, or anything.
I was happy to cast my vote today and appreciative towards the people who fought to give us all that right.
Can you believe there was a time we couldn’t?
my ballot
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 |
I was thinking about whether to write about politics again – with the elections coming up on 18 May.
The first time I blogged about it in 2009 was so much fun, it provided me with the direction I wanted take this blog.
Oh, the nostalgia!
The late night debates with people who were as likely to change their votes as I was. But to be fair there were one or two who were conflicted about who to vote for and why.
I was called an idiot a few times. A lot of times by one person, in particular.
That upset people close to me, but I didn’t mind one bit.
I banned him eventually, when all did was to spam me with the same message many times per day. The first and only time I had to ban someone on this blog.
I gave as good as I got most of the time, though.
But since then the fun has pretty much gone out of political discussions. The vitriol is not something I want in my life anymore.
Come 18 May, I will be voting ANC, as I usually do. There is no doubt in my mind this time.
The alternatives are not an option for me. Maybe if the Independent Democrats were truly independent they might have been an option.
The Democratic Alliance has no chance at all of getting my vote.
So with decision made, there is nothing left to discuss. We (and I include myself here) are no longer open to others opinions.
Which is a pity, because it seems like we’re as polarised as the USA and other countries. There is no middle ground anymore.
The Congress of the People might have provided that option, but since their spectacular rise and fall, we’re left with only two real choices.
My decision about whether to blog about politics or not, was up in the air until yesterday when Gareth Cliff’s Facebook feed appeared on my screen.
All he did was to wish President Zuma a happy birthday, but the responses he received were mind-blowingly rude! And that’s an understatement.
Who are these people who are so mean-spirited they can’t wish someone a happy birthday? Are they in the shopping malls I frequent, do I pass them on the streets? Are they family, friends, colleagues or neighbours?
So that was that.
I would prefer to live my life on my little fluffy cloud and believe the lie we told the world during FIFA’s soccer world cup in 2010, when we provided them images of us as a nation of smiling faces.
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