Malema’s Politics Of Unreality

At the mass funeral in Vryheid for the ten young EFF supporters who lost their lives in a bus accident, Julius Malema’s penchant for the politics of emotion was in top gear (The Mercury, June 23).

But by using the occasion to make promises of land, homes and a functioning infrastructure for the families of the ten victims, reason and reality became the victims of Malema’s politics of emotion.

For the sake of votes for the floundering fortunes of the EFF, Malema wittingly indulged in wild pledges which can never emanate from the policies of the EFF.

Reason and reality indicate that under an EFF regime, the shambles that the ANC has created would be ten times worse. Socialism does not fix roads, build houses for the masses or provide them with boreholes let alone jobs. Instead, as ANC rule has shown, socialism enriches elites while impoverishing the masses. The plight of millions in South Africa testifies to that.

Malema rightly referred to the dangerous conditions that prevail on our road system, which caused the deaths of the ten EFF supporters, as a “wake-up call” requiring urgent attention. Ironically, however, those who swallow Malema’s politics of unreality are the ones who require the wake-up call.