SOUTH AFRICA: ANC youth leader Julius Malema expels a BBC journalist at news conference in Johannesburg

Record ID: 456099

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: ANC youth leader Julius Malema expels a BBC journalist at news conference in Johannesburg
  • Date: 9th April 2010
  • Summary: MALEMA SINGING A REVOLUTIONARY SONG....."The boers are troubling parents at home, asking where are their kids....the spear of the nation will hit them with an AK, ....we will beat them with a bazooka......" The are many songs. "..climb on top of the house,....my mum becomes happy when I beat the boers....." There are many songs. These are ANC songs."
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2010 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Communications,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5XT83ILTEXM7KZ77IEBAYDA64
  • Story Text: The firebrand youth leader of South Africa's ruling party made clear on Thursday (April 8) he will not be silenced, demanding Zimbabwe-style land seizures from white farmers and vowing to keep singing a controversial song.
    "Zimbabwe has been very successful, they have managed to give indigenous people lots of land from the minority," Youth League leader Julius Malema said.
    Under pressure after the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche stoked fears of racial strife, the African National Congress told members on Wednesday to avoid inflammatory songs and comment.
    Malema said he would accede to the demand to drop the phrase "Kill the Boer" from the song which dates from the era of the struggle against apartheid, but keep singing the rest of it. Boer is the Afrikaans word for a farmer.
    Malema attacked the media, saying that they always mis-report important issues like the land issues. He then ordered a BBC reporter to leave the news conference after accusing him of being disorderly.
    "Chief can you get security to remove this thing here? ...If you have a tendency of undermining blacks where you work, you are in the wrong place... You are a small boy, you can't do anything. Go out...bastard, go out, you bloody agent," Malema said to the journalist before he left the room.
    The ruling ANC has ordered its youth leader and other structures to stop inflammatory comments after he was accused of stoking racial tension before the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche, local media said.
    Terre'blanche's Afrikaner Resistance Movement and mainstream opposition parties have linked the killing to sentiment fuelled by Julius Malema and his singing of a song from the era of the struggle against apartheid with the words "Kill the Boer".
    The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has rejected any link between the song and the murder, but President Jacob Zuma has appealed for calm two months before South Africa is due to host the soccer World Cup.
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