Ayanda Kota Unmasks Julius Malema

Julius Malema holds the position which Nelson Mandela once held during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa - president of the Youth League of the African National Congress. While Mandela grew from that position to become one of the most respected leaders who has promoted racial reconciliation in South Africa, Mr. Malema is increasingly becoming a rabid racist in order to protect his own economic interest. It is a truth universally known that post-colonial African leaders have often feigned nationalism in order to rip their people of their substance. Mr. Malema fits that description, especially as analyzed in this piece by Ayanda Kota, chair of the Unemployed People's Movement in Grahamstown, South Africa. After Mandela, the country is increasingly being run by leaders who, like most post-colonial leaders of sub-Saharan Africa, care very much about what they reap from government rather than the well-being of their people. Malema is increasingly becoming such a leader and, given the fact that he is touted as a future president of South Africa, the South African people must make sure he does not go closer to the presidency than he already is. He is now using racism as a political tool for his own benefit; he must be unmasked for what he is as Ayanda has done in the piece above. We need more Ayandas in South Africa before the country goes the deplorable way of most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa does not need to repeat the mistakes of the post-colonial African state. With people like Malema, South Africa's future will be bleak.