Equality Court to hear Malema hate speech charge

Aah "Activists" - definition: persons or people unable to secure proper employment or earn a living doing anything productive. Habitually these creatures feed from the same trough as politicians whilst producing nothing of value
Our Constitution has a clause referring to freedom of speech so their silly complaint should go unheard.
Unfortunately our Constitution makes no provision banning stupidity or ignorance, in which case Malema would have been in breach.
Malema has breached the (silly) parts of the Constitution referring to "hate speech" with his racist comments....where are all the activists now?

As predicted, the controversy surrounding the appointment of Zuma by the ANC will not go away. The appalling admissions the man made in court will continue to haunt him and the ANC for years to come. All the weasel words in the world cannot change this. Zuma has been hoisted on his own petard. Only by Zuma resigning can the Presidency hope to be restored to the dignity it enjoyed in the days of Mandela.

Admittedly all of us had at one time blurted out comments that we later had cause to regret. This name calling of the Youth League of the ANC and others however, should be treated with the contempt it deserves - it is devoid of any logic. In fact they should be charged with instigating violence and threatening one of our constitutionally elected leaders. Behaviour of this kind should not be tolerated in our democracy.

I'm sorry but what does COSATU have to do with this comment? How in any way does it affect their function as a trade union. I completely agree with Unions but NOT with what seems to be looking for an excuse to march again

Please realize that political parties, like the ANC, often use 'hotbloods' like Julius Malema to 'test' the popular climate, by making outrageous remarks and watching outcomes, or to broaden parameters, so they can appear to be moderate by stepping within them. These are tactical manoeveurs within a broader strategy. We can never really know where a political party stands, whether the ANC, the UD, the LRA or the Whigs or Republicans, because THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW.

I suppose maybe sometimes the truth is offensive. And what of it?

(And here I mean what Zille said, not the weird baseless nonsense the others retaliated with.)

I will be very interested to see how the Equality Court deals with this matter. By the way, in case the ANC is interested, I have always voted for them in the past, but this comment by Mr Malema was the reason why I, as a woman and a rape survivor, did not vote for the ANC in this election.

The last time I heard the window for being able to detect HIV infection is 3 - 6 months, and any test in that time would not safely indicate whether JZ was in fact infected or not (of course he himself will know this?). If he had had unprotected sex with any of his wives in that 6 month period, and was in fact HIV positive, he could quite possibly have infected his wife or wives as well. Has Zille said anything untrue? The Youth league responds with with their concubine rubbish and the ANC has the audacity to "be offended"? Blade's assertion that she has created another bantustan is straight out of the gutter as well....disgusting.

I really do regret that Ms Zille continues to refer to Mr Zuma and his alleged rape since no-one really seems to believe or care whether what he did was wrong. It is a non-issue to the majority of South Africans - so let it lie. THere are plenty of other issues on which to attack the man.
However the quality of the comments being made, in particular by ANCYL, is a disgrace and a shame to the nation, not least because the spokespeople do not seem to know that a 'concubine' is a female, so hardly an appropriate term of condemnation for Ms Zille's all- male cabinet. Before ANCYL embarrasses itself in the eyes of the world, maybe it should check a dictionary to make sure it is using correct terminology.
(Concubinage is the state of a woman or youth in an ongoing, matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. Typically, the man has an official wife and, in addition, one or more concubines. Concubines have limited rights of support from the man, and their offspring are publicly acknowledged as the man's children, albeit of lower status than children born by the official wife or wives; these legal rights distinguish a concubine from a mistress. Modern day concubines are widely called mistresses because of the minimal use of the term concubine).
That aside,in this sex and violence crazed country, is it right for our leaders to be formulating their invective in sexual terms?
Deeply Disgusted

Well done Mbuyiselo Botha. It is about time someone took malema to task. Accountability means a better South Africa.

I cannot agree with you more Adrienne, all this sleaze must stop and leaders should focus on the main concerns of the citizenry - poverty, joblessness, health, among other things. When all is said and done though what bothers me most is this pathological hatred for the president which is often couched in moral terms. It is sad that we still have some people in South Africa that would want to see the country divided along racial lines, and that we still have some people who are still stuck in the world of apartheid and therefore are refusing to accept the new political dispensation.

Mbenge Ziko