The ANCYL leader Julius Malema has been a defending mouth for nationalization of mines in South Africa in the past few months. Even today he still stands the grounds, though this will not benefit the poorest of the poor. Mr. Malema has been trying his best to convince people to defend nationalization, he even call those who oppose names.
MALEMA IN UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG (UJ)
To prove that “Juju” really wants nationalization to take place, he even visits students who according to him are the “future” of this country. Malema is known as a man of controversies and name calling, that’s exactly what he did in Soweto Campus, "Since the debate on nationalization, every rich family has spoken in defense of their property... all of them; they are in Stellenbosch, the Stellenbosch mafia."
That was just trying to show you that where there is Malema there is controversy, how can you call people” mafias” without having an evidence. In case someone don’t get the exact meaning of the word mafia, as it happened to me till I contacted my dictionary: Any similar group using extortion and other criminal methods. Are people living in Stellenbosch criminals? You be the judge.
What haunts me most is that, Malema is trying to insert young minds into his works, but I think varsity students are wise enough to be changed by Julius.
WHO TO BELIEVE BETWEEN MALEMA AND ECONOMISTS?
As far as I’m concerned or the last time I checked economists were not just people who studied wood work or something. I, as for one couldn’t do economics, not that I did not like it but it was difficult for me so I fully respect those chaps who studied economics and became economists. But now Mr. Malema is coming here and telling students that they must not believe economists as they “feed people with lies”. According to as far as I know economists only try to keep the economy of the country balanced, now I don’t know the point of the “lies” come from. Those gentlemen are able to predict what would happen to the economy of the country after twenty years. Does Malema know that or he does not even care? If he does know, definitely he does not care because economists have proved that this country would be in sour recession after twenty years.
WHO EXACTLY WOULD BENEFIT?
Not all of us as students we come from wealthy or rich backgrounds, I fall under those who struggle to pay even university charges. My worry is that: would the poor people benefit from the governmentally owned mines? Not at all because there are many things that the government has been owning but people complain now and again about the government that doesn’t deliver, the “corrupt government”, what will now make the difference with mine nationalization?
AREN’T WE FIRING THE INVESTORS?
ZIMBABWE! Malawi! Kenya! Tanzania! Mozambique! Nigeria! The nationalized trains in Nigeria are running at a maximum speed of 35km per hour. The investors haven't returned after 40 years of nationalization.
Students, let us stand up and let our voices be heard before we lose our lovely country!
