The DA saying what we saying???

[Phil Cooper]

If I was to tell the Press I was going up to address the miners after the incident, the attitude would be "so what?"

Julius Malema is out of the ruling party. He is just a man in the street. Just like you and me.

SO - why do the Press rush to report that he is going up there, and report what he said and did?

Ne is a NOTHING!

[gac]

Only by voting for an opposition party can we keep the required balance to keep a ruling party on their toes. There should always be a strong opposition to keep this balance.

They may have had noble intentions when they still had proper leaders, but the ANC has now become an arrogant, corrupt, racist party that is betraying their own people. The other parties are not much better, but if we love this country and its people we have a duty to show more patriotism and put South Africa first. Let's take our country back from the corrupt politicians.

I am right alongside you on this. The only hope a country has against a majority government is a strengthening opposition.

Perhaps Judge Chris' much debated post sheds an explanation - "sheep mentality". The masses are so cowardly they would rather go with the herd and just vote for the ruling party.

Isn't it amazing that it takes an ignaramous like "Little Bob" Malema to take the fight to the bunch of corrupt power hungry government officials we have. His utterances at the Marikana Memorial Service yesterday, as inappropriate, ill-timed (politicking at a Memorial Service), insensitive & disrespectful (to families of the dead). In a way I am thankful that this idiot has misbehaved and been expelled given he seems to be one of few who feels nothing to sock it to government. As repugnant as this dangerous, self indulging, irrational twit is, it worries me sick that the masses seem to listen to him. He talks their language.

[Phil Cooper]

Agreed.

BUT - why does the Press report on him? He is a NOTHING.

He is powerful because the press MAKES him that way. They say he is going to a place - so people go to hear him.

If they didn't KNOW he was goung, there would be nobody there to listen.

[Dave A]

Rereading the thread and in context to the above:

The trouble is that the general mentality in this country is that if you are anti-ANC, you are unpatriotic.

The ANC nurtures this - and that is (one of the) reasons that the downtrodden go on voting as before.

I suggest the mentality that the ANC has been nurturing is that the only way to meaningful political influence and to bring about change is through the ANC (and no-one else).

Perhaps that makes following Julius right now an interesting proposition

[Blurock]

More and more people are realising that the Dolittle Party is not doing anything for them and that it is time to move on.

The implosion of the state's administration and the corruption in the guise of BEE will have dire consequences for South Africa in the coming years.

[Phil Cooper]

I see in a Press survey that 59% of the 22 to 30 year old Blacks are expressing Anti-ANC sentiment.

And they have not got the sheep mentality inbred by the years of oppression.

[Mike C]

The scary thing though, is that they may confuse "effective" with "radical", and think that the ANC has not been radical enough. Instead of going for "effective changes" they might be tempted to vote for Malema if he was start his own party.

[wynn]

If Julius becomes the official opposition party I will vote for him until he gets close to becoming the government then I will vote for the next opposition.

[Justloadit]

Right now we need to break down any ruling party that has more than 50% of the votes.
JM may just be the catalyst to make this happen.
I do not think that JM will get a majority number of votes, but what he will do is steal the votes from the ANC camp.
There approximately 4 million youths from the age of 18 to 25, who currently have been overlooked by the present government, they could cause the change that we are looking for.

[Blurock]

If Julius becomes the official opposition party I will vote for him until he gets close to becoming the government then I will vote for the next opposition.

Beware, this is how Hitler came to power. Do not underestimate the populist vote.