Wait, what?

Julius Malema has been summarily suspended from the ANC, announced the party’s National Disciplinary Committee this morning. Following much collective outrage and sputtering across the party’s upper echelons, the NDC met and decided on this action in response to Malema’s comments last week at Wits, where he labelled President Jacob Zuma “a dictator”.

During a centenary lecture at Wits University in Johannesburg last week, a fired-up Malema said the ANCYL was being traumatised and suppressed under Zuma’s leadership. Malema said Zuma’s leadership had suppressed the voice of the youth and replaced democracy with dictatorship. He also introduced the world to his new white protégé, Jonathan Ovadia, as we reported earlier this week.

It is understood that the NDC delivered a letter to Malema informing him of the suspension this morning. This means that Malema is forbidden from attending any ANC meetings, including those of the national executive committee and national working committee, of which he is a member. He is also now prohibited from attending meetings of the Limpopo Provincial Executive Committee, to which he was elected in December.

Hands up if you’re as confused as we are! Wasn’t he already suspended from the ANC? The same suspension that is due to be appealed next week? Apparently, in their letter, the NDC went to lengths to point out that this suspension does not form a part of the disciplinary process against Malema that resulted in his suspension, a sentence he is currently appealing.

An suspension within another suspension. Well, that is just Inception-level HR innovation, ANC. Well played.

And what is going to happen to Jonathan? Why does no-one ever think of the children.

[Source: IOL, Mail & Guardian]