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(NEWZIMBABWE) ANC youth leader Malema expected in Zim

ANC youth leader Malema expected in Zim
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28/03/2010 00:00:00

FIREBRAND African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President, Julius Malema, is set to visit Zimbabwe for a series of meetings with Zanu PF counterparts.

Zanu PF Youth League national secretary for administration Leslie Ncube said Malema was visiting Zimbabwe to discuss and share ideas on “youth empowerment and revolutionary tactics”.

“The ANCYL president will be arriving next week. It will be a three-day visit and other executive members of the ANC youth league will accompany him,” Ncube said Saturday.

The Zanu PF youth official said the ANC and his party have enjoyed cordial relations that date back to the liberation struggle adding these ties would be further strengthened by Malema’s visit.

“We share the same revolutionary history and they (visiting delegates) are coming to learn from our agrarian reform and indigenisation.

“The ANC is about to expand its land reforms, and we will share advice and discuss how resources should be equitably distributed to the youth and also how they can benefit from natural resources such as mining,” Ncube said.

Malema is a controversial figure in his native South Africa where he is loathed and admired for advocating radical empowerment policies and routinely criticising the leadership of the ANC for failing to deliver on the promises of the country’s liberation struggle.

He was recently rapped by South Africa President Jacob Zuma after he criticised the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan.

There are also concerns over his flashy lifestyle and the sources of his new-found wealth but Malema dismisses the criticism, insisting that he actually survives on “handouts” from well-wishers.

“I am not rich. I do not have millions as reported. All my houses have got bonds. They are financed by banks. I've never got any lucrative tender from anybody … I live on handouts most of the time,” he said in a recent interview.

Labels: ANC YOUTH LEAGUE, JULIUS MALEMA

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