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Julius Malema during an ANC Youth League march, Johannesburg, October 27, 2011. Malema, who was fired as president of the Youth League in November 2011 and expelled from the ANC in February 2012 for bringing the party ‘into disrepute’ with his inflammatory and racially tinged populism, has repeatedly attacked South African President Jacob Zuma, leading to a bitter split within the ANC.
The Freedom Park housing settlement sprawls across a barren, windswept plain on the outskirts of Rustenburg, South Africa, about one hundred miles northwest of Johannesburg. When I arrived there around noon on a searingly hot day in late February, at least ten thousand people had gathered in a dusty field sandwiched between clusters of zinc-walled, tin-roofed bungalows. They had come to hear an address by Julius Malema, the recently ousted president of the African National Congress Youth League, and one of South Africa’s most incendiary politicians.
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