{"id":3589,"date":"2011-08-05T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2011-08-05T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:06:27","slug":"fw-de-klerk-response-to-malemas-silly-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fw-de-klerk-response-to-malemas-silly-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"FW de Klerk Response to Malema&#8217;s Silly Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"FW de Klerk Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FW_de_Klerk_Foundation\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">FW de Klerk Foundation<\/a> has taken note of Mr Malema&#8217;s remarks regarding former President De Klerk. They are so silly that they hardly merit comment.<\/p>\n<p>However, Malema&#8217;s bombastic outbursts on a wide range of other topics from nationalisation to Botswana &#8211; and the inexplicable failure of the ANC leadership to call him to account &#8211; cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Malema and the ANCYL have become a serious embarrassment to South Africa. They are beginning to undermine international confidence in our economy; they are damaging relations with one of the most progressive and democratic states in Africa; and they are eroding the inter-community reconciliation that President Mandela worked so hard to promote.<\/p>\n<p>The behaviour of Malema and his colleagues must presumably also to an acute embarrassment to many principled and disciplined members of the ANC. They must be painfully aware that Malema&#8217;s self-aggrandisement, his irresponsible outbursts and his undisguised lack of respect for the ANC leadership\u00a0 have no place in the traditions that the ANC has developed over the past 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the Twits have to say:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/OFUNWA\/status\/99345378826137600&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/bigwonder\/status\/99358088485801985&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DanteBello\/status\/99374321939656704&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/paulyberk\/status\/99419340809572352&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AdrianaStuijt\/status\/99455324351766528&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jujutokelosh\/status\/99456319991451648&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EkJokeNet\/status\/99492159446728704&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peherald.com\/news\/article\/2321\" target=\"_blank\">ANC not interested in unifying community<\/a> (peherald.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peherald.com\/news\/article\/2282\" target=\"_blank\">ANC bosses need to rein Malema in<\/a> (peherald.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chriskilo001.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/04\/the-anc-is-reactionary-and-counter-revolutionary\/\" target=\"_blank\">The ANC is reactionary and counter revolutionary&#8230;?<\/a> (chriskilo001.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=09b01b9e-fea0-4adc-8153-d40d41e3fbcd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of Mr Malema&#8217;s remarks regarding former President De Klerk. They are so silly that they hardly merit comment. However, Malema&#8217;s bombastic outbursts on a wide range of other topics from nationalisation to Botswana &#8211; and the inexplicable failure of the ANC leadership to call him to account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1196,1366,364,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-3589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-fw-de-klerk","8":"tag-julius-malema","9":"tag-nelson-mandela","10":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}