lördag 10 april 2010

Lästips: Rian Malan om Julius Malema

av TOR BILLGREN

Missa inte Rian Malans utmärkta artikel om Julius Malema i gårdagens Telegraph. Utdrag:

I thought that only the South African Communist Party (SACP) was capable of irrationality on such a dumbfounding scale. I was wrong. Malema is not a tool of the SACP. In fact, he's at constant odds with the SACP's leadership.

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Besides, the Reds are fairly sophisticated, whereas Malema's every utterance is a cringe-inducing embarrassment. Listen to him in Harare last Saturday: "They are so bright, so colourful, we refer to them as white people. Maybe their colour came as a result of exploiting our minerals and perhaps if some of us get opportunities in these minerals we can develop a nice colour like them." This is not a coldly scientific Marxist-Leninist. It's Pere Ubu or Idi Amin.

It could be that President Zuma has simply lost control of the ANC, or that Malema is the puppet he uses to mouth ideas too radical to emerge from the presidency. If you ask me, Malema is the point-man for a powerful ANC faction whose motive is greed and whose chosen weapon is racial demagoguery of the most primitive kind.

Malan skriver i sin text att Malema inte tillrättavisats av ANC-ledningen. Och det var sant när han skrev artikeln, men igår publicerade partiet ett uttalande där det tog avstånd från ANCYL-ordförandens uppförande. Och idag har president Jacob Zuma äntligen också tagit bladet från munnen och förtydligat partiets hållning till pressfrihet, rasrelationer, laglydnad och Zimbabwe. Det vill säga områden som Malema har komprometterat partiets trovärdighet inom med sina vansinniga uttalanden.

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Jag intervjuade Rian Malan förra veckan. Texten kommer att publiceras i sommar.

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