ANCYL

The more press the ANCYL gets, the more I have to laugh at their spokespeople. They really have the most RIDICULOUS things to say. I guess that recently (there isn't time to go into all the history) it all began with Julius Malema, ANCYL president, who commented that the ANC was not just going to win a two-thirds majority, but they were going to win a three-thirds majority.

Then, this week, Helen Zille made a comment that was unrelated to a question she had been posed regarding her appointment of an all male provincial cabinet, possibly in an attempt to deflect attention from herself. Her comment was about President Zuma (and THAT is another whole series of blog posts in itself) and his sexual conquests.

Jumping to his defense, the ANCYL made a series of ... I can only call it laughable statements about Helen Zille. The ANCYL is, apparently, "disgusted by remarks attributed to the racist girl Helen Zille, who when failing to defend her stupid and sexist decision to appoint predominantly white males into her Cabinet, attacks the president of the Republic of South Africa. Zille has appointed an all male Cabinet of useless people, majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them, yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our president.

OK. So, as if that wasn't ridiculous enough. This morning, on radio 702 (a Jo'burg based talk radio station)/ Cape Talk 567 (the Cape Town version of 702), an interview was held with another ANCYL spokesperson, in an attempt to clarify their statement. You can hear the podcast of the interview here, but two things that were said made me laugh:

1) According to the ANCYL: "Racist" means being someone who undermines black people.

Umm, yeah, I'm not sure in which universe that is the meaning, but last time I checked, it wasn't in this one.

2) According to the ANCYL: "Sleeping around" means sleeping around (not having sex with someone), and if you don't know what that means, then you need to look it up somewhere, because there is no other way to explain it.

OK, then. That really helped to clarify the situation. Thanks. So blue means blue, except that blue is not the colour in the spectrum that is between green and purple, and if you don't know what blue is, then you'd better find someone who can describe it to you, because there's no other language I can use to explain it to you.

In fact, the other thing that made me chuckle was that at the end of the interview the spokesperson told the interviewer to grow up when speaking about 'these matters'. OMW!! Open mouth, engage both feet.