Malema is crazy

At a time when Zimbabwe is in the process of national healing after a decade long impasse, the last thing the country can afford is another Chenjarai Hunzvi (may his soul rest in peace).

Hunzvi pioneered the land grabs that resulted in the racist motivated deaths of white farmers and his uncircumcised lips full of hate speech gave birth to a raucous band of war veterans who soon became a law unto themselves- threatening to seize all foreign owned companies.

Soon the desperate ZANU PF government was like a puppet on a string. Ministers like Aeneas Chigwedere advocated for a name change for all schools that had colonial names. City buildings and streets that whose names could be traced to Britain-the colonial ruler were also to be changed. This was literally rewriting history. Eveline Girls High School in Bulawayo was going to be named after the late Joseph Musika.

Now Hunzvi is gone and there remains some overzealous elements both in government and ZANU PF that stop at nothing in their quest to remain in power. How does one explain the purpose of the visit to Harare by South Africa's ANC Youth Wing dunderhead Leader, Julius Malema during the Easter holidays?

Malema jetted into Zimbabwe just weeks after his country's President, Jacob Gedleihlekisa Zuma had met leaders of Zimbabwe's compromise government so as to iron out outstanding differences. While Zuma awaits progress reports on the negotiations, the dull and foul mouthed Malema jets into the country apparently to learn from Zimbabwe on how nationalization is done. It can't a coincidence that Zimbabwe currently has an Indeginasation bill in parliament that the opposition and the industry don't support.

His presence in the country has poured water on Zuma's efforts much to the delight of ZANU PF opportunists. It is therefore not surprising that Malema was welcomed at Harare International Airport by a band of ZANU PF youths and thugs singing the "kill the Boer" song that Malema was banned from singing in South Africa.

Following weeks of tension in South Africa as a result of Malema's inflamatory, politically naive decisions and stupid comments, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was hacked to death at his farm in what is clearly a murder incited by his "kill the Boer" song. While denying that he incited the death of Terre'Blanche, Malema said; "I started singing this song when i was nine years old. I don't know why Terre'Blanche was not killed at that time."