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Sat May 25 15:43:16 SAST 2013

MK veterans seeking attention : ANCYL

Sapa | 03 April, 2012 13:01
the MKMVA 'just want to show their girlfriend that today they will be on TV' according to the ANCYL
Image by: Tsheko Kabasia / Sunday World

The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) is just seeking attention by commenting on ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, youth league secretary general Sindiso Magaqa said on Tuesday.

"They just want to show their girlfriend that today they will be on TV," Magaqa told reporters in Johannesburg.

"We find it very strange that the MKMVA released the statement. We believe this is not the statement of the collective but of an individual," he said.

Magaqa was addressing the media immediately after MKMVA held a press briefing at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House.

Earlier, MKMVA chairman Kebby Maphatsoe called on the ANC's national executive committee to expel Malema summarily.

"Julius Malema thinks he is bigger than the ANC," said Maphatsoe.

"He has fed on the media frenzy against the liberation movement, casting doubt and aspersions on the ability of the ANC to formulate policies and govern South Africa in favour of all its citizens."

Magaqa said the MKMVA's statement had no content.

"We are dealing with people who do not have an understanding of ANC processes."

Magaqa referred to some MKMVA's not being veterans but being "sell-outs".

"They have a bad history... I won't go any further with that," he said when asked what he meant by sell-outs.

"Not everyone was a soldier of MK, some were cooks."

Magaqa said the disciplinary process was still ongoing and that Malema was still the ANC Youth League's leader.

"We are more determined than ever that we have an elected president until 2014," he said.

"Nothing has changed."

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Misowam

Posted 417 days ago
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Imagine such a statement from a Youth League supposed to be "leader" disrespecting like that. These people (ANCYL) to be exact, they are very rude and they no longer know their place at all and they think whatever they say will go, it is time the ANC put them into their naughty corners they think this is a playground or creche and they need to be treated as such.
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Kgoele

Posted 417 days ago
Echo that, respect, respect and respect!!!
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tefson

Posted 417 days ago
So is the MKva !!!!! as far as the matter is concerned its being cooked by the media and MKVA are also dancing to the tune stup#t.they do not have grounds to commenting on issues regarding NEC with out folliwing a due process and right Channels to voice their disgust and u must remember we are the members of the ANC and today we don`t fathers and uncles because of apartheid government and some were not buried nobody can trace them so we have right to comment on issues regarding the future of the ANCYL and the ANC not only those who servived like MKVA, our bothers died for the same course so Zuma is not bigger than us the ANC so is the MKVA and the ANCYL, if malema is not respectful then they need to show that they are better than him and they need to show respect .
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Mike123

Posted 417 days ago
Where is the naughty corner? In parliament?
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Rudi7

Posted 417 days ago
We've never hear about these so called veterans before and now from they blue they want to influence policy. The public needs to know who are the people behind this veteran masks and what do they stand for. I'm sure Zuma is trying his best to hang on to power.

matlhabaEuric

Posted 417 days ago
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Assuming that the MKVA's statement does lack content, the fact and position could have stated without an attack on the person who issued the statement.

the unfortunate part is that the subject matter of the statement of MKVA remains uncontested, and we have an unnecessary casulty.

young lions please, rather we deal with issues.

Mike123

Posted 417 days ago
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Hahahaha... I love it! Like two little children squabbling over a toy.

SecretVoice

Posted 417 days ago
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This makakka guy should also be expelled. He has no respect for anybody and this is a clear sign of a lack of upbringing. If he was my son I would have given him a hiding so bad he will not be able to sit down for weeks.
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tefson

Posted 417 days ago
unfortunately for u these are politics and you need to also remember some of the issues being raise by these young lads they got them from the guys that were sidelined by these who thought they new better and now using these boys to raise certain issues {faceless cadre }and hence Zuma does not just jump into whisking malema away he knows there is a voice behind malema it must just prove too dangerous for him hence he is using the NEC to take malema away.he is the president and has been personally abused by these young lads,he has all the rights to say expel them with immediate effect but he can`t cause he knows that would create a play ground for these faceless critics. ask yrself why magaqa says what he says about the MKVA?

the_original_MommaCyndi

Posted 417 days ago
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LOL
They are hell bent and determined to insult absolutely everyone.

AnotherTaxPayer

Posted 417 days ago
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"Not everyone was a soldier of MK, some were cooks."

I suspect a typo and he meant Crooks. Just a guess...
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SecretVoice

Posted 417 days ago
HA HA HA you got it in one.

BUDDYC

Posted 417 days ago
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The only reason why Malema is expelled is because his youth league is even becoming more recognised and talked about than ANC, then seemingly taking over. We will which puppet will be leading and followed by scores of Youth League members.
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AnotherTaxPayer

Posted 417 days ago
By youth league members you probably mean. Men in their late 20's and mid 30's ready to wreck, break and plunder anything on demand? Unfortunately their leaders gave us this example of what a youth league member looks like...

gengezi

Posted 417 days ago
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Well said Magaqa. Some of them were cooks. @ AnothertaxPayer, it's not an error.They were cooks in the kitchen. OOOkukar. Asile amakhwenkwe ndiwancamile

tefson

Posted 417 days ago
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NEC "malema should have Chanel his energy to recruit the white youth to the ANC "said the NEC.
NEC ",malema showed no remorse while serving a supesion "

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innitial outcome from the ANC -NEC for expelling malema ,

1 malema started insulting mbeki and Zuma kept mum
2 malema went on to insult the women who accused Zuma and the NEC went mum
3malema went on rampage calling hellen Zille with names ,the NEC and zuma were once again mum.
4 malema insulted political parties in ZIMbambwe and praised mugabe,Zuma was again mum
i stop there i`ll tell you when Zuma started feeling the heat.

m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 417 days ago
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Lack of trust in, or knowledge of, democracy is understandable, but unjustified. The whole thing began with pinning masts on individual, rather than democratic institutions, weak as they were. If Malema and his crew wanted it, then why not trust that our democracy would reject, or accept it. If the ANC did not believe that it would not win such debate, why not discuss it, and then put it to national institutions, and deal with the outcome? The same with Zimbabwe, or Botswana issues?

The more we are called upon to strengthen our democratic institutions and understanding, the more we run back to what we know best- suppress dissenting opinion. This is what we all inherited, 'black' and 'white'. Our past is where we draw comfort from. What are we teaching the generations to come? What have we learned from apartheid? From other African dictatorships? Trust me, the present practice of pinning our mast in individuals, is coming back to bite us. It is the seed of destruction to our stillborn democracy.

Instead of showing the generations to come that democracy works, even how difficult it is, we confuse them to save our individual @&$e$, at the expense of our future generations. Just because we won't be living, then?
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Argus

Posted 416 days ago
I really enjoy your post's Tim, very insightful... as always...