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Malema's plots to expose Zuma's secrets

by IOL
02 Apr 2012 at 07:35hrs | Views
JOHANNESBURG - As Julius Malema's strategy to "expose" President Jacob Zuma's "weaknesses" and "secrets" intensifies, the ANC has warned him that his missives have reached "intolerable levels of disrespect".

An ANC Youth League official close to Malema told The Sunday Independent on Friday night that the tactics of the young leader's faction was to "ensure that Zuma's weaknesses… are exposed" by publicly "telling the nation" about his "secrets".

This was soon after Malema told students at Wits University that under Zuma the youth league was "traumatised" and suppressed by the president's "dictatorship".

However, the ANC has warned Malema that attacks against Zuma "have been going on for some time and have reached intolerable levels of disrespect".

In a blistering attack, Malema said the league was "radical" when it viciously attacked Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe but "ill-disciplined" when it criticised the president.

As the crowd cheered, Malema tore further into Zuma: "We have seen the youth being traumatised… being expelled from their own home. It is under Zuma we have seen a critical voice being suppressed. We have seen under Zuma democracy replaced by dictatorship."

The ANC warned him that if he didn't stop "he will be unwittingly dragging himself to a precipice where a point of return is impossible in the eyes of ANC members."

At the same event at Wits on Friday, ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa encouraged young leaders to continue to be critical of their elders. "You can never become the lackeys of the older generation," he said.

Meanwhile, Phosa has accused ANC communications official Keith Khoza of a smear campaign.

Source - IOL