Several political reasons why I and my branch will vote for Julius Malema!
Perhaps I, from the onset, should mention that I am a voting delegate and that neither I and nor our branch personally know President Julius Malema.
Equally, we have never been influenced by anyone outside our branch about our programmatic and leadership perspectives in relation to the upcoming 24th ANC Youth League National Congress. We are also not necessarily interested in President Julius Malema knowing any of us (at least that's my view).
We are however interested in his leadership qualities which fit like a plug in the socket in terms of the current youth challenges and what's to be done. Put differently, President "Killerman" Malema is equal to the task of confronting the apparent strategic resistance towards addressing youth issues and treating us (youth) as recyclable condoms that are only relevant during national, municipal and internal party election periods particularly because of our fresh energy, physical and otherwise skills to mobilize as foot soldiers (or Economic Freedom Fighters).
Hence, in this paper I will present the political basis for our principled and solid state of readiness to proverbially "shoot to kill" in its defense of Julius Malema and the ANC YL. In other words, this article seeks to briefly share with all of you several political reasons that informs our decision to support Julius Malema for the second terms as we also supported him for the first term. To this end, I will highlight some of the current youth and organizational challenges and then proceed to argue how President Malema's leadership qualities fit in all of this.
Without further class analysis because of time and space but it suffices to say that South Africa, just like all hitherto existing societies, is a product of contestation over the control of political processes and the means of production. As a result of strategic compromises by popular forces as led by the glorious African National Congress, 1994 officially saw the defeat of, at least in principle, an entirely white and racist regime whose mandate was to ensure that black people remain, as Isaac ka-Pixley Seme noted, "drawers of water and hewers of wood" or ‘zombified/unthinking' white servants.