The ANC's national disciplinary committee found Malema guilty of provoking divisions within the ruling party and of bringing the organisation into disrepute. He was suspended for five years and told to vacate his leadership position.
Julius Malema was kept around as long as he was useful, and now that he’s become a hindrance to Jacob Zuma he has felt the heat. The fact that this is the same ANC failed to sanction Malema for insulting former President Thabo Mbeki in 2008 is an indication of the politics involved here.
President Jacob Zuma may be closer to a second term in office after the ruling. Malema was the biggest obstacle to Zuma winning the party endorsement in December next year to lead the ANC, and by implication the country, for another five years.
The manner of Malema’s expulsion are immaterial to me, as long as he has finally been hindered from spreading his racist, chauvinistic, economically damaging, and ill-thought rhetoric. The nationalisation debate of South African mines that rattled investors will likely be sent into the political wilderness along with its leading advocate, Malema.
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