Say What???

Julius Malema, ANC jester, yesterday described Helen Zille, Western Cape premier and head of the D.A., as a 'racist little girl'. Oh my days.

I have had enough of stomaching the ridiculous, aggressive, violence inciting rubbish that Julius Malema has to spit out at any opportunity. Can anyone describe a time when he has said something positive, constructive or dare I say, useful?

I returned from the UK after a 3 month holiday in February. It was interesting being over there because you hear nearly no news about South Africa, save for a blip now and then about Mandela. But since the exit of Mbeki and the hasty rise of Zuma and Malema, SA has been in the news more and more frequently. The sad thing is that the bulletins about SA are usually followed by a deep sigh, head shake and/or a nervous cough. Western news sources have no means to understand how our highest powered figures cannot get a sentence out without being offensive.

So how do they get away with it? Every time? While at the same time feeling it within their right to retaliate when ever someone has 2c to contribute about him. Zuma is even suing British newspaper the guardian because they said he had been convicted of corruption, rather than he was allegedly corrupt. Bollocks to that!

We may have freedom of speech, but when do we as voters and SA citizens have a right to say 'shut the f*** up'. Does anyone remember their mum's saying 'if you don't have anything useful to say, don't say anything at all'? I do. There are millions of South Africans who have positive, useful, ubuntu-esque things to say every day. Can we stop giving publicity to comic-figures and give some to the clever people? Please!