Julius Malema: No judge can sit in front of Zuma

Posted: February 5th, 2009 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General
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THE rantings of Julius Malema continue and one can only conclude that the ANC’s powers that be are satisfied with them. They are no longer contradicted and patronising statements about how he is a youngster still learning the ways of politics have (thankfully) ceased.
This is Julius on the the pending trial of Jacob Zuma on corruption charges:

“The judge will be sitting in front of the President of the Republic. Can you be proud to prosecute your own president? It would be an embarrassment so we are saying to the NPA save us from this embarrassment. This court case is not in the interest of the people but is in the interest of your [NPA] masters.”
And more from the story in this morning’s edition of The Times:

Malema also told the 3000-strong crowd that Zuma had been chased out of the Union Buildings “like a dog” in 2005 by then president Thabo Mbeki and that “he will be the president of the same person who expelled him”.
Young Communist League secretary Buti Manamela:
“Register to vote and forget those that ran out of Noah’s Ark thinking that it was the Titanic. The ANC is not sinking. Zuma is not sinking and the Alliance is not sinking”.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe:
He said Zuma’s prosecution was an attack on the party and that the ANC would support its president as he is a “symbol of the ANC”.
“You hit the head to kill the body because the brain is in the head”.
ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus:
He said the ANC has appointed attorney Asif Latib to run the case with overall legal strategy assistance from Cape-based law academic Paul Ngobeni. Hilton Epstein will be the party’s senior counsel.
“It is not in the national interest that the ANC is being placed in a situation where our democratic right to have Mr Zuma as presidential candidate is being compromised”.
“Our right as an organisation is being compromised, without any allegation against Mr Zuma being tested”.
“We do not accept that there was not political interference. We still continue to believe that there has been a history of political interference”.
Latib on the ANC’s bid to join the court proceedings as friends of the court in both the Constitutional Court and Pietermaritzburg High Court Zuma cases:
“We do not intend interfering in the court in terms of political meddling. The ANC has asked us to argue this in the interests of the nation…and the impact this case will have on the nation as a whole”.
Zuma on the opposition parties:
“On one side of their faces they are defending the Constitution and on the other side they are undermining it”.
“Maybe they should vote ANC because they can’t stop talking about us”.

Related posts:

  1. Judge Harms tears Zuma judgment to shreds: Corruption trial may proceed
  2. Judge John Hlophe nominated for the Constitutional Court. (Not April’s Fool)
  3. Zuma attack on Constitutional Court is short-sighted
  4. Malema’s scathing attack on a judge
  5. Zuma: The looming judicial crisis

 

Comments

 

Eli Jikelele

February 5, 2009 at 9:46 am

Malema is afraid that the judiciary would embarrass the ANC by prosecuting their president but is too stupid to realize that Zuma would in fact be embarrassing us to the world. He is patently a man devoid of character, ethics, morality and competency. The sick part of this is that the ignorant black masses would be voting him into power because of being manipulated by the communists and unionists.

 

Larry Goodfella

February 5, 2009 at 10:05 am

Malema is the embarrassment. Zuma is the embarrassment. The NPA and the judge will be merely doing their job, and will have no reason to be embarrassment. Any embarrassment will not be caused by Zuma being tried in court. The embarrassment will be caused by the ANC preferring a presidential candidate who is up for trial on charges of fraud and corruption.

Zuma says he is not guilty. But they found his comrade Shaik guilty, so we should not be too quick to believe him.

More reason to thwart the ANC at the polls.

 

Reginald Radebe

February 5, 2009 at 10:55 am

Zuma must do an honourable think which is to resign as potential presidential candidate.As for Malema should keep quite we have heard enough of him.Yesterday he was challenging the IFP hot heads which we all know how sensitive it is the war between ANC and the IFP which requires high level of diplomacy because it will be easy to become a bloodshed within a split second.It took the shrewdness of politicians like Mandela to calm the violence in that province not the johnny come late like Malema.Malema please shut up and concentrate on youth issues.

 

AK-47 cum Pen

February 5, 2009 at 11:22 am

Sawubona Larry. Unjani?

 

Reginald Radebe

February 5, 2009 at 11:35 am

Zuma has embarrased himself long time ago and even today in his spechees.I can quote the past two days when he adresses the media.One in his homestead at Inkandla where he said during the ceromony of a brigde to be build i quote”it is like a dream come home”instead of saying it is a dream come true.Just yesterday on addressing thousands outside court he said i quote”they can write about him to sell more adverts” instead of saying they can write about him to sell more newpaper to gain revenue.I am no expect in English but i understand the basics especially the president to be should know better.

 

Zumaniac

February 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Zuma’s never ending gaffes(like when he was photographed in Duncan village giving money to a woman when they visited her shack during campaigning)are symptoms of an hiv carrier experiencing a low CD4 count,they tend to lose it a bit.

 

maiphepi

February 6, 2009 at 1:09 pm

if he resigns who is going for his legal costs – who would like to take a quicker way to jail

 

Nkosinathi Khanyile

February 6, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Good people, I suggest we get started with our series of reheasal sessions, and call JZ “President Zuma” as often as we possibly can, given April is around the corner.

This will help lower high blood pressure and stress to most of us here when April comes. At least by then people will be used to it.

@ Zumaniac

Are you sure you are not talking from experience my friend?

 

Eli Jikelele

February 6, 2009 at 1:39 pm

@Nkosinathi K: Zuma might become your president but this sh.ithouse will never be my president.

 

Nkosinathi Khanyile

February 6, 2009 at 1:43 pm

@ Eli Jikelele

My brother, Are you implying that you will leave the country?

 

Larry Goodfella

February 6, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Nkosinathi,

There is no denying that Zuma is not a statesman or suitable to be described as ‘presidential material’. His choice by the ANC and their stubborn obstinacy to keep him as presidential candidate, has not only ruptured the ANC and caused the formation of COPE, but the Zuma debacle has also set the ANC back into ‘struggle’ mode. This goes to show that Zuma has not been good for the ANC, and it also shows quite painfully that he will not be good for South Africa as a whole, as we go forward to the future.

The ANC has been a great ‘struggle’ liberation movement, but like all situations where the ‘catch up guy’ finally gets the ball, the ANC does not know what to do with the ‘ball’. So they tossed the ball back into play and start chasing it all over again. The ANC do not know how to govern, and they found the worst possible candidate to prove it, while they chase silly communist dreams.

Zuma may be president one day, but he will not be respected. He will only get respect by making those close to him fearful and this is a power that makes good men mad.

He will never be my president, whether I live here or not.

 

Zumaniac

February 6, 2009 at 10:16 pm

@Nkosinathi-theres a lot of Hiv/aids material out there and you can learn a lot about CD4 count,it wouldnt hurt to read them.They are available free of charge.As for me,i play it safe my man i.e unlike zuma,i always cover my d*** cause im not an aids denialist and i certainly dont prey on female visitors to my house.I value self respect a lot.

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