I notice you are usually the one to comment first under most articles which up until then have been blocked for comments. Are you a TimesLive employee, deployee or plant?

'I have observed is nearly every white family has a trust fund'

Your 'observations' will have you believe that every white person in South Africa 'owns a trust fund'. Also that every single white person owns a mine and a farm?

Julius is a public figure, like it or not. After the yl election, julius is speaking like he's president of the country. Then you want us to know he's a public figure. But when his finances come into light, then suddenly he's not a public figure.



I open myself up to SARS for a lifestyle audit. Ive got nothing to hide.

Unlike julius.

Cheese and rice, I didn't even know that I had a trust fund. Thanks for telling me.

Let's get something straight. The PUBLIC PURSE is not for enrichment. Through kickbacks on TENDERS your hero has enriched himself. He has stolen money that should have been used to better the lives of South Africans, especially black South Africans.

Some people are born with high IQ's, and are deemed to be intelligent. Some people are born with low IQ's, and are deemed to be dumb. However, in my view stupidity is a choice that one makes. You ignore the fact that Malema is a fraud and support him solely on the basis that he is black than you are choosing to be stupid.

Your post has very little to do with the actual article and more to do with bringing race into the equation. You are trying to come across as Afrocentric but all you managed to do is signify yourself as a race obsessed bigot whom for some reason or other have to try an subvert the subject at hand.

You have not adressed the issues postulated in the article - same as what your hero has apparently tried

Broad sweeping statements such as "all whites have trustfunds" is a fallacy and the worst type of insult to the populace of this country

Malema IS a public figure with political aspirations and as such will be scrutinised whenever he opens his barndoor sized yap and utter something silly such as he is "pro-poor". Horse manure, he is in it for himself and nobody else. If you do not posses the EQ to distinguish this from the usual drivel he usually utters then good luck to you

Well done City Press - this is why the ANC wants PIB and MAT

look africa2011, to work for some publications u must have a serious inferiority complex and u must be willing to naivley loath everything about yourself and dont even dare to be objective. there are some mantras that are repeated quite lamely here, if u ever notice, rich people of color have to be savaged, there can no good about them and they have no right to speak up for the poor, especially if they dare say lets share equally. even more blatantly inane, if u notice other stories that of prime importance for this country are underplayed and passed of as nothing, i saw what i think is a very grave story on the de Beers mine dumps, which the company is alledged to have withheld information from the governemnt on its mine and there is no comment section on that story, infact it's neatly tucked in a bottom corner of this site. these mines are located in areas were the people who live there are basically voiceless. i suppose the capitalist instinct behind that is to keep the naive masses entertained with stories on regular "bad boys" namely Malema, Cele and Floyd, whilst business goes on as usual. u'ld think, if Malema or Zuma had shares in De Beers then matters like that will get due prominence.

@BenMarema

Actually the De Beers story was headline from last night until about 7 this morning.

And you are going to see a lot more of it - Big mining houses getting rid of their SA holdings at any price due to the threat of nationalisation by this selfsame character who apparently got caught with his arm in the cookie jar.

And what exactly is the Government going to do since they cannot reasure these companies that mining will not be under threat as has happened in the rest of Africa? And nationalisation is on the cards no matter who says what - it is the African political way.

So ask yourself this queation - if your house is about to repossesed will you spend thousands on renovating it?

I bet politicians from other African countries wish they had people like you rushing to their defence with the race cards whenever they are accused of corruption. He is holding a public office as such the public has the right to hold him accountable, if he has dealings going on, the people have the right to know if it is legal or not.

I think it is pathetic that people like you find excuses in everything to blame the White man or find stupid reasons to play the race card when a public figure's credibility is put in question. Sure he has stepped on some people's toes (white, yellow, brown, black, pink or even red, colour of the toes does not matter) who might be "out to get him" but that does not mean he is innocent nor does it mean he is guilty, that is for the courts to decide.

I grew up in an African country with next to zero racial issues compared to South Africa and I don't see how the colour of his skin exempts him (Malema) or any other public figure from be questioned when his lifestyle exceeds what he supposedly earns. I think that is how the rest of the world identifies people who MIGHT be into something illegal.

Let me ask you this, if all of South Africa was one race and Malema was a politician/public figure who stepped on some toes and seeming to live way beyond his means, would that not raise questions of where he got his money?

........there is no worse blind than the one who refuses to see.........Malema, the Pink Lion gets his money by fraudulent means while he preaches with hypocrisy about the poor...

Son , you are deluding yourself . I just happen to be a white grandaddy . I do not have any trust and neither do my friends . There is nothing wrong with having a trust , so long as your share of tax is being paid and the source of the funds are being declared .

Say for instance Julius' funds came from the Kremlin at R2M or more monthly . As long as it was declared and tax was paid , we have no real saak . What he should of course do is take a leaf out of Tony E's book and give 50% to charity .

But when he drive R1.5M Landy's , Hyundai Tucson's etc , wears breitling watches and expensive Armani suits , flies up and down , goes up and down on white trash at sushi parties , trust me he's preparing the country for the Sino/Russian take over and new colonialists where he has been promised a decent well paid job .

But Julias is too thick - he will be chewed up and spat out by his new Sino Chinese colonial masters , just as soon as he has outlasted his usefulness

Here's a little bit of education for you and people like you who keep supporting corrupt blacks just because they are black. Support fat boy juju in all he does, his bid to nationalise mines, banks and expropriation of land, and this is what will become of our country:


"Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to R100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay R1.

The sixth would pay R3.

The seventh would pay R7.

The eighth would pay R12.

The ninth would pay R18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay R59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by R20." Drinks for the ten now cost just R80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes, so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men, the paying customers?

How would they divide the R20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

They realized that R20 divided by six is R3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid R2 instead of R3 (33% savings).

The seventh now pay R5 instead of R7 (28% savings).

The eighth now paid R9 instead of R12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid R14 instead of R18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid R49 instead of R59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before and the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a Rand out of the R20, "declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got R10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a Rand, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get R10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, don't protect them against crime, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND, NO EXPLANATION IS NEEDED.

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND, NO EXPLANATION WOULD EVER BE POSSIBLE!!

A quote from a very clever man.....

That is clearly not true. Legitimacy knows no colour.

Sorry, Mzungu, but the Whoreks are there to protect, not prosecute the politically connected.

I am afraid you are right.

Baas Frik ...why don't you just tattoo yourself Black, huh?

Baas -Frik, since when did the likes of you care for the poor? You are just using the name of the poor to advance your own white prejudice. At least now we know who are the fat cats millking the public purse; before 1994 there was no spotlight on public officials. We could do nothing about governance. The poor do not need your Sympathy.

So Bonganani it is OK to steal from the poor you must just not get caught. What a nice sense of morals you have. I take it you speak for all comrades. No wonder the country is falling apart. Your brethren sits in all the top jobs seeing who can steal the most without being caught. What a lot of shameless jokers you are?

I take it you wear a tinfoil hat as well and attend "Conspiracy R Us" meetings every other week?

This boy wants to be a public figure and if not City Press then it would have been somebody else but his dirty little secret would have ben outed eventually

Have to agree with Baas Frik - nicely bent moral compass you have there

@baas frik,

When there is a comment"This country is going to the dogs or blah blah blah" I always know it's a white person. Most of you whiteys are unpatriotic racists who are longing for the past that will neva come back!!! even your name says it all"baas", how pathetic.

also raise a stink in white business that is the most corrupt of them all!!!

Baas Frik is a Coloured person from Kimberley ...and all those blogging here for years, know it!

He will always run down White people whenever he can. He is just very jealous that he is not White...

:)

.....robocop...

...and what is your opinion on Malema's crookery exposed?????........

@stompie se paai,

a coloured would not say this country is going down like whiteys do, i refuse to believe that he is coloured for reason that coloureds know that we were there in townships when everything was dark and gloom. only whiteys think we're going down bcos they were pampered like poodles and now that they are not, everything is going down.