Julius Sello Malema

The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) and its leader Julius Malema Zuma’s erstwhile ally and now his opponent is pushing anti-Zuma candidates...

The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) – retired guerrillas of the old ANC’s armed wing – has come out in support of Zuma and the Guptas and its Chairman Kebby Maphatsoe says he wants the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to discipline Julius Malema its President who has been vocally criticising the brothers...

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema who seemed pacified after Zuma brought his allies into cabinet is back on form and accused Zuma of appearing ‘only to look after his family’...

Zuma appears to have silenced his party critics including the voluble ANCYL leader Julius Malema with a commanding performance at the party’s National General Council in December and through a flurry of foreign trips that have landed the country bountiful investment from China a seat on the United Nations Security Council and membership of the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) group of rising economic powers...

The anti-Zuma camps will not be packing their bags just yet though: he remains under attack from leftists in the trades unions and South African Communist Party (SACP) and from the right particularly from former ally and ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema...

At the Youth League (ANCYL) conference in Johannesburg last week its President Julius Malema called for ‘new blood’ in the party leadership (See Zimbabwe box)...

After Vavi lashed out against the ANC’s crony capitalism the Youth League’s Julius Malema joined in the criticism of the family patronage system around Zuma...

The conference enthusiastically endorsed the mandate for Youth League leader Julius Malema the wild child of the ANC...

Two former NUM leaders (and now top ANC officials) Gwede Mantashe and Kgalema Motlanthe face growing attacks from the conservative nationalist wing of the party led by youth leaguers Fikile Mbalula and Julius Malema...

The MDC stands aloof from events such as the flying appearance of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which was treated as a purely ZANU-PF affair as was that of Julius Malema the wild child of South Africa’s African National Congress Youth League (AC Vol 51 No 12)...