Malema's campaign speech self-defeating

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema will not last long in South Africa's biggest election race if he continues to utter political sentiments which directly insult and defeat his past occupations in creating present day South Africa while he was still the ANC Youth League leader.

In a rally held at the onset of March in Mamelodi, he kept on reminding residents of Stoffel Park that that they are to blame for the lack of service delivery in the area.

'The roads are like this because you're to blame,' he said. 'You have been voting for the same people who do nothing for you.'

It is not surprising that Malema will plunge his EFF party and himself into a bottomless pit which might risk burying his political career forever if he is not careful. Most of his campaign speech is saddled with political utterances that hold no water.

Did Malema quit ANC on issues of starting a new political party? What was the reason behind his movement?

Malema must however remember that he was building himself a more than R16million mansion while he two months ago he built a less that R50 000 high density design two bed-roomed house for President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla, Durban homestead neighbor, S'thandiwe Hlongwane, 31.

It is socially absurd to think a good house without a meal on the table would ever make a good home. Does it mean to say that the poor of South Africa should live in low income houses while the political heavy-weights deserve a palace treat?

The EFF should not forget that Malema was an active youth member of the ANC with the post of ANC Youth League chairmanship. He (Malema) grossly contributed to the set up of present day South Africa. The poor service delivery is not an instantaneous event on the South African calendar but a product of years and years of the ANC's leadership which in this case will certainly include Mr Malema.

South Africa must open her political eyes and learn from the political and economic failure of some of her neighbours. We do not want government to built Africa but we want Africans to build Africa. Life is not a moment but a long and challenging journey which calls for survival of the fittest. We cannot rely any more on politics for our economic emancipation. When we choose our leaders we must not choose their personality but the economic policies and the ideological creeds and the policy platforms from which these political parties are founded.

It is good to have open democracy and allow various political players to take part in the political race. We should however play our cards well. My challenge is that the majority of the poor in South Africa must choose with their minds and not with their bellies.

We do not want leaders who amass wealth without justification and economic ethics. Corruption is a living organism and it grows into a monster and ends up swallowing giant economies into retrogression.

Two months later, the roof of the house Malema built for Hlongwane is falling apart, and its walls are beginning to show cracks. That is a strong satirical reference for what might become Malema's leadership if elected into power. Political parties must not mature in a day like the hatched egg of a housefly.

We must give Malema time to grow and mature politically and that he must learn that freedom, justice, equity and development must always go hand in hand. Miracle born parties are a threat to the beliefs of the late nationalist Nelson Mandela to build a rainbow nation. The national general elections are set for May 7.