MEDIA STATEMENT
BY THE
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
IFPYB: Malema Must Apologise
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ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has once again opened his mouth and demonstrated what a embarrassment he is to the ruling party, South Africa and all its people. In his latest attack on the IFP President, Malema referred to Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi as a "factory fault". "We wonder how Julius Malema would react if the IFPYB started a verbal barrage on the ANC president, Mr Jacob Zuma? Prince Buthelezi has always walked the moral high ground while the ANC president and Malema himself have on numerous occasions made the news for all the wrong reasons. While the media and other observers often lash-out at ANC personalities; we have refrained from doing so because we are a youth organisation that believes in respecting our elders," said Pat Lebenya-Ntanzi MP, the acting chairperson of the IFP Youth Brigade. Lebenya-Ntanzi added: "Previously, we knew that our country's leaders advocated the values of liberation and that they were about bringing democracy to our country, freedom to our people and hope to a nation. Today, the ANC presents us with leaders such as Julius Malema whose violent, racist rhetoric and total disrespect for our democracy and our constitution can only be considered an embarrassment to the youth of South Africa." Malema, while campaigning for SASCO at the University of Zululand, even went as far as calling the IFP a terrorist organisation that had collaborated with the apartheid state to unleash a reign of terror on black people. "We find his terrorist comments laughable. If there is a terrorist amongst us it is definitely Malema. He continues to terrorise the South African society with his rabble-rousing nonsense and his grossly distorted version of reality and our collective history," said Lebenya-Ntanzi. Lebenya-Ntanzi said that the IFPYB will be taking the matter further. "The IFPYB is calling on Malema to withdraw his statements because they are derogatory, grossly inaccurate and offensive. If he doesn't adhere to our request we will be forced to seek legal advice on this matter," said Lebenya-Ntanzi.
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