Monday, April 18, 2011

The show shot to the Boer

Surrounded by a group of strong men in suits with red ties and armed with repeating rifles. That's the first letter that offered Julius Malema, leader of the ANC Youth League and future candidate for president of South Africa, on arrival at the Court of Justice. A promising start that is having an outcome at the height: speeches through a megaphone to the crowd on the steps of the Supreme Court of the hand of his "mother" Winnie Mandela, mocking songs from around the world and attacks on the plaintiffs' lawyers.

Malema is judged last year by singing at political rallies a song with lyrics inciting racial violence, according to the Afriforum. "Shoot the boer", says the dolphin tune the ANC has become the anthem of their cause, giving him a reputation that even had as sung by the black population in times of struggle against the horrific apartheid regime, and Strong has reopened racial wounds of conflict.

That was the beginning of a trial that has become a show for the glory of a man who makes a show of all his public appearances and has staunch supporters, hundreds of thousands, and staunch detractors, another few hundred thousand. What Malema afraid to stand under a battalion of war in court?, Asked the media.

The same judge left the room all the armed men. "Here there will be people with machine guns," he said. Then, the Youth League said that although they were not in uniform, "are cops," which denied the police headquarters in a note. "They are not ours." No matter, then there was no information or a newspaper that had not brought the issue to cover But Malema is not alone.

Next to it is the former wife of Nelson Mandela, the famous Winnie Mandela, who is accompanying him every day of trial to be held in Johannesburg, and thousands of fans who do watch at the door of the Supreme Court first thing in the morning. "It's my son," she tells the crowd, "and you are my grandchildren," he proclaims with a megaphone one of the strongest symbols of South African politics.

He was visibly excited, referred to as "my mother" and began a speech on the stairs at ensuring that "this trial is not with me is against the revolutionary cause", making it de facto, in the eyes of their own, a martyr of the people. Then, when the mob decides to go to the stake with their messiah and loudly sing the "shoot the boer" Malema take the megaphone again and decides to reinvent the song with sarcasm: "Shoot the murderers, the murderers shot, the boer kisses, kisses to the farmers.

" Before, he had called "Mickey Mouses" Afriforum's lawyers and announced by active and passive "does not ever be silent." I hear front hundreds of dedicated individuals. Some of them are dedicated to "jump on the cars of the lawyers for the prosecution and urinating on him," the Times report.

The Malema is strong support among his people, carrying placards with slogans such as "will not leave our president alone" or "criminals are Afriforum, who stole the land of our fathers." The show must go on ...

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