MALEMA MORONISMS

This Malema idiot is getting away with way too much. On being questioned on where he is getting the money for his R16m bunker/mansion on a salary of R25,000 a month, the Mugabe-in-waiting's response is "I am not a pubically elected ofishool. I don't have to tell you where I get the money from."

O yeah? Let's apply something to which Malema is totally unaccustomed: logic.

Let's assume he has a number of patrons who are bankrolling his mansion - among other expenses. The logical question to ask is 'why would they do this?' In the cut and thrust of politics, no-one does anything for nothing. The patrons obviously believe Malema will one day become a publicly elected official. They are investing in that belief and expect to be recompensed by his largesse once that becomes a reality.

Another glaring piece of logic everyone is ignoring is that although he is not a public servant, he IS an elected official. As such, his electorate, the ANCYL, has every right to demand full disclosure of his income. The fact that they haven't shows just how easily they are beguiled by Melema's bullshit. Idiots.

But getting back to Malema's patrons. How do they stand to benefit? Tenders, of course. This country has a long history of 'tenderpreneurs' - Roux Shabangu and others - who ride the gravy train to Lamborghini bling-paradise through winning contracts via irregular and illegal means.

So, Malema is basically promising to assist his patrons by using his influence unconstituionally, and therefore illegally, IF he becomes a political kingpin. Note I said IF, not when. I live in hope.

As Roux Shabangu has recently found out, the patron's scenario doesn't always work out. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is making Shabangu's life a living hell, and even Shabangu's mate, General Bheki Cele can't dig him out. Cele should be unceremoniously fired for awarding the contract to Shabangu in the first place, but this is Zuma's ANC, so instead, Cele will be 'redeployed' to inflict untold damage on the hapless Japanese as SA Ambassador/Bull-in-a-china-shop.

How stupid are these patrons? Throw money at a fascist megalomaniac who counts Bob Mugabe and Brother Leader Gadaffi among his heroes, in the hope that he will become, erm, another Mugabe/Gadaffi. If, God forbid, that nightmare does come true, the country will be so fucked that the patrons will be the last things on Malema's mind as he goes into perpetual denial that the country is becoming ungovernable, while simultaneously siphoning billions off to his Swiss bank account. Talk about backing a lemon.

But this is Africa, and stranger things have happened.