The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of the decision of the ANC's National Disciplinary Committee to suspend Julius Malema for breaching various provisions of the ANC's constitution.
Mr Malema's suspension should not surprise anyone. Nobody in any organisation can alienate so many powerful factions so abrasively for so long without paying a price.
Whatever Malema's future may be the issues that he so aggressively articulates and the constituency that he claims to represent will not disappear.
One of the central challenges facing government - and indeed all South Africans - will be to restore some degree of hope to the millions of young - predominantly black - South Africans, whom Malema claims to represent. Our new society has failed them dismally: it has left most of them educationally crippled and 70% are unemployed.
All this makes them susceptible to the populist promises of demagogues. The nostrums that Malema prescribes are politically and economically illiterate but enormously appealing to these millions of young people subsisting on their siblings' children's allowances and their grannies' pensions.
The message is also fundamentally racist: "Look at the whites, the way they live. They stole all this from us and we must take it back. We must take back the land; we must take the companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange; we must nationalize the mines - all without compensation."