A political analyst has warned of the chilling effect the actions of Julius Malema could have on democracy in South Africa. He was reacting to exclusive Times Live video which shows the ANC Youth League president ordering the police to remove ANC security and ANCYL members from their Limpopo provincial conference.

Eusebius Mckaiser, a political analyst at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, says that the use of police should be a last resort. He says that “the political impact of using security to deal with political dissent is very negative and very undesirable.”

He describes this behaviour as being in the category of a “president taking a journalist to court. Even if the president loses that case, the mere fear that you might have to use a lot of money as an organisation or a journalist will stop you from writing a critical article."

ANC Youth League members in Limpopo have rejected Malema's use of policemen to crush his opposition.

They are demanding that the conference by re-held after the World Cup to “elect a legitimate leadership”. They say if this doesn’t happen they will organize a new elective conference themselves.

Malema instructed police to remove delegates who were booing him including ANCYL leaders and ANC security members in April.

The ANC Youth League Limpopo regions and sub-regions: Vhembe, Mopani, Peter Mokaba, Sekhukhune and Waterberg say they are shocked and dismayed that their leaders have been charged with walking out of conference.

They say in a statement it is clear that police “acting on instructions” from Malema chased their leaders out.

Listen to the Mckaiser analysis

Transcript of video:

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema at the ANCYL Limpopo Provincial Congress in Makhado, 09th/10th April 2010.

“Comrades we are asking the leader of the South African Police Services to bring crowd control inside and remove this crowd. We are asking police to come inside. SAPS must come inside. Comrade’s delegates sit down! sit down delegates!

We are asking SAPS to come inside. Makushu (Head of VIP police) can you bring police inside please? Can you go and help us get Makushu? We are asking crowd control to take over this people. ANC security, comrades police, we are asking, security ANC security.

Comrade’s police we are asking you to take out those people who are singing. Delegates sit down! All those people at the back please take the out, all of them outside.

Those who misbehave and insult you, you are given an instruction to lock them up. Take the outside! We are not going to run congress through hooligans here. And we are asking police to take over all security points.

The ANC security must be removed from all those security points.

Vusi! VIP everybody, please take over the security points. All those who had been chased out they must not come in here. Pule that security from the head office must come and take over here. Please!

We are not running a Mickey Mouse organisation here. Police take them outside OUT! Outside push outside. Police don’t negotiate with hooligans. Push outside, push outside.

Police please take over all security points. This people must be taken outside the conference venue, not outside the hall, outside the conference venue. Pule, Pule, take security charge, Themba, Vusi, security police must take over entry points.

Amandla, Awethu, Amandla, Awethu. Comrades we are not chasing anybody outside of this conference.

Those delegates who were taken outside, if they want to come back, they have got one condition, they must come back and behave and respect leadership.

So from now onwards, whoever is going to enter that door as long as you got a tag. We are asking ANC security please do not take sides and just allow people to run amok in the congress.

If you think you have got a problem with this congress, you have got the right to leave your positions and we will take over. We will take over and run this conference.

This is what is going to happen comrades, everybody who come into this conference must be prepared to behave.