Oupa Magashula [the new SARS boss]: the choices we make now will make or break us (as a country). If we don’t do everything possible to create jobs for our young people then we plant the seeds for a revolution

SHOOT: The media is targeting Malema - will he get a get-out-of-jail-free card?

clipped from www.businessday.co.za Only, thanks to City Press, we know now that Malema hasn’t paid any tax on his ill- gotten millions and that could mean he goes to jail. Fantastic! But will it happen? The new SARS boss, Oupa Magashula, had a wonderful interview with Sake24 (Rapport, also Naspers) yesterday in which he warned that “the choices we make now will make or break us (as a country). If we don’t do everything possible to create jobs for our young people then we plant the seeds for a revolution.” He could not be more right. But in a developing and transforming economy like ours, you start creating jobs by putting yobs like Malema away. But Magashula could be. No one seriously expects Malema to have paid his taxes. So? Charge him. Try him. Put him behind bars where he belongs if he’s guilty of evasion or fraud, and to hell with the politics. They wouldn’t be all that grave anyway. In the meantime it is going to be interesting watching Malema squirm his way out of the media interest he has created around himself.