SHOOT: And who is the great enabler for the likes of Malema? The broadcast media. Newspapers like Sowetan.
CLIVE SIMPKINS: Bottom line in my view, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu postulated this a long time ago, when he said the rainbow nation is in fact a myth these days - it's a farce and it's a fraud. I believe the ground is being very carefully laid for a real social upheaval at some point and when you have people like Julius Malema who may not be an intellectual, but my goodness he is streetsmart, and he understands how to work people and he is - I would use the word cunning - so there are some powerful instincts there.
CLIVE SIMPKINS: Bottom line in my view, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu postulated this a long time ago, when he said the rainbow nation is in fact a myth these days - it's a farce and it's a fraud. I believe the ground is being very carefully laid for a real social upheaval at some point and when you have people like Julius Malema who may not be an intellectual, but my goodness he is streetsmart, and he understands how to work people and he is - I would use the word cunning - so there are some powerful instincts there.
ALEC HOGG: Just to dwell a little on the political side - Julius Malema is a loudmouth - we know that. He certainly hasn't expressed terribly cerebral opinions on a whole range of issues, and he is once again putting his foot in it here, and getting involved in an area where one would think a logical person would stay away from unless you really did understand the background to it. I heard a theory the other day that he is being used by the ANC as an agitator - as someone to just stir up the nest and in fact he told a person that I know quite well, that this is the way he sees his post as well. Is that a wise thing to do in a society like ours where you do have 25% unemployment and an agitator can quite quickly lay fertile ground for someone who perhaps has worse intentions for the country as a whole?
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