Juju men in Zim restaurant rumble
Image by: MIKE HUTCHINGS / REUTERS
Julius Malema failed to charm the Zimbabwean media this weekend when his bouncers allegedly attacked two Daily News reporters who tried to interview him at a plush restaurant in the capital, Harare.
Expelled ANC Youth League president Malema and his spokesman, Floyd Shivambu, were in Zimbabwe for a high-profile Zanu-PF wedding and to meet Zanu PF party officials.
Malema's three bouncers allegedly manhandled photographer Bethule Nkiwane and threatened to "break" him for taking pictures of Malema. Reporter Tendai Kamhungira was apparently also caught up in the melee. The two complained to the Zimbabwe police.
It is understood that the reporters wanted to ask Malema about the money-laundering charges he is facing and his links to Zanu-PF.
In order to enter Zimbabwe, Malema would have had to get clearance from the South African police because he is out on R10000 bail on the money-laundering charges.
Daily News editor Stanley Gama told reporters that Malema had agreed to an interview but, after introductions had been made in the presence of Zanu-PF officials, the bouncers became aggressive .
"He appeared interested in talking to my colleagues. But after that his goons pushed him aside and told our reporters to go to hell."
Malema left the venue in a convoy of three Range Rovers led by the brother of Zimbabwe's minister of youth development.
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Posted 218 days agoProgressiveAfricanDemocrat
Posted 218 days agoAny public figure will know that there is right and wrong time and place for an interview. A restaurant where a public figure is enjoying a quiet meal with his hosts, is hardly the right time and place for an interview. But some journalists, want to force their way and ask offensive and provocative questions. I think that journalists must take a pause and think long and hard about how they do their work. There is a thing as the right to privacy. You do not just arrive unannounced to interview a Julius Malema or anyone. But anyway this is likely to fall on deaf ears as journalists are always right.
SuiGeneris
i_stub_born
.......a "thugs" surrounded by minor thugs.........
dailynews.co.zw/newsarticle.aspx?q=bbc88851-453b-4fe8-ad2f-9b1003eb224b
Robrt5Mugabe99
QPCLCD308
The culture and duties of an ANC cadre is nothing but to loot and Juju had done that with a distinction, our ''future president''! That is how the ANC graduate rolls.....HAHAHAHAHA.....
HAHAHA...MY ANC, my future, my vision.....MY LOOTING TICKET.....
ER2
mhlupheki
Posted 218 days agoTokolosh
Posted 218 days agoSuiGeneris
Marthasmuffin
Posted 218 days agojamesnaker
Posted 218 days agoRSA.MommaCyndi
Posted 218 days agoNext headline will be 'Malema buys white socks'?
The only headline that I want is "Malema applies for permanent residence in Zimbabwe"
QPCLCD308
Posted 218 days agoAs long as is the ANC associated it cannot even get better than the word ANC!
m1si2zi3nzo4
Posted 218 days agoSeanmcDonald
That is part of the problem, is that Africans seem to think that the power lands in the hands of an individual. That is not how democracy works!
One vote, one person!
If the current leadership is not performing (as it is now) then we can vote them out. Oops sorry that is not how it works here in SA, the parties internal structures choose through undemocratic processes who will be the next all powerful. Once they are in power then we have no say. A true reflexion on African democracy.
Let's educate people so they can make up their own minds, the way forward!