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Sep. 3rd, 2011 02:56 pmMalema supporters 'threaten stability'
Militant supporters of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema could destabilise Southern Africa, the Communist Party of Swaziland said on Friday.
"One of the dangers of the current situation... is the rise of... movements that ride on the mobilisation of the unemployed, disempowered and ill-educated masses," general secretary Kenneth Kunene said in a statement.
He was responding to violence in Johannesburg's CBD on Tuesday, when Malema supporters threw bottles and bricks at police and journalists outside ANC headquarters Luthuli House.
Kunene said the African National Congress and SA Communist Party had become targets for attack by "a growing ultra-nationalist right wing that has hijacked the language of liberation and revolution".
He compared the situation in Southern Africa with that in Europe prior to the outbreak of the World War II.
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Militant supporters of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema could destabilise Southern Africa, the Communist Party of Swaziland said on Friday.
"One of the dangers of the current situation... is the rise of... movements that ride on the mobilisation of the unemployed, disempowered and ill-educated masses," general secretary Kenneth Kunene said in a statement.
He was responding to violence in Johannesburg's CBD on Tuesday, when Malema supporters threw bottles and bricks at police and journalists outside ANC headquarters Luthuli House.
Kunene said the African National Congress and SA Communist Party had become targets for attack by "a growing ultra-nationalist right wing that has hijacked the language of liberation and revolution".
He compared the situation in Southern Africa with that in Europe prior to the outbreak of the World War II.
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