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Under Malema's Spell
Julius Malema is a mesmerizing public speaker. Pity his gospel is so fraught. This piece for New Frame. It’s a gift. These ous make it too easy for him,” an EFF organiser grumbled ironically under his breath as he cussed a pair of cops walking past. The police officers were casing out a meeting at the Wiggins Community Hall, where EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema was addressing his “ground forces”.The EFF organiser mumbled about police “victimisation” of the red berets, though the sluggish cops hardly looked menacing. Pencil pushers, he concluded, with a mildly irritated shrug. We bemoaned the state of government in general, though it is an obvious boon for opposition parties like the EFF.
On the outskirts of Durban’s central business district, Wiggins is a low-cost housing settlement where the narrow, litter-choked streets are vivid testimony to the state’s failures.
https://www.newframe.com/julius-malema-enthralls-voters-kwazulu-natal
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Greg Ardé
Greg Ardé is a journalist based in Durban, South Africa. He has written three books and currently edits a magazine.
In the course of his 30-year career Greg has been involved with a number of media, including newspapers, radio and television. He is the former bureau chief of the Sunday Times in Durban and editor of a monthly magazine which appeared in that newspaper.
He was previously deputy editor of the Sunday Tribune, property editor of the same publication and business editor of The Mercury.
He was political reporter on the Daily News and worked for the South African Press Association in the run-up to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. In that time he covered political violence extensively. Greg has a national diploma in journalism from the erstwhile Technikon Natal.
As part of this, he served a year’s internship at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later ran the Dispatch's Umtata bureau, close to the birthplace of Nelson Mandela. He is deeply committed to issues of justice, accountability and development and wrote a weekly column for 15 years.
Greg has a keen interest in the evolution of cities and in 2013 and 2014, contributed to the Resilient Cities series, an initiative sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Greg’s passion for politics, cities and development nurtured a curiosity in business and entrepreneurs and he has run three publications in that vein.
In the course of his career, Greg has also facilitated a number of roundtable talks aimed at improving education, economic development and job creation in Durban, the city he calls home.
