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    S. Africa police battle stone-throwing protesters

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police fired stun grenades, water cannons and rubber bullets Tuesday at thousands of stone-throwing protesters, who burned flags of the ruling African National Congress party and called for the ouster of the country's president.

    The protesters were supporters of Julius Malema, the fiery leader of the ANC's youth league, who was brought before a party disciplinary committee charged with bringing the ANC into disrepute. He faces possible expulsion or suspension.

    After the day of sporadic violence, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe announced that they were moving the hearing to a secret location outside the city to allow business in the country's economic capital to continue uninterrupted.

    Earlier Tuesday, Malema urged his cheering followers to be peaceful. They had burned the green, black and gold party flag and T-shirts carrying images of South African President Jacob Zuma and other top party leaders.

    "You are here because you love the ANC. We must exercise restraint," he said.

    The hearing follows the youth league's calls for the overthrow of the government of neighboring Botswana. The youth league had accused democratically elected Botswana President Ian Khama of cooperating with "imperialists" and undermining "the African agenda."

    Analysts say the disciplinary hearing is a pretext to help ANC leaders get rid of populists like Malema, who has mobilized support demanding nationalization of South Africa's wealthy mines and appropriation of white-owned farm land for black peasants.

    "Zuma must go!" protesters chanted, angry over the disciplining of Malema and Zuma's failure to fulfill election promises to address growing inequality and poverty in South Africa, which despite being an economic powerhouse has massive unemployment among young people.

    The support of Malema and his youth league was instrumental in getting Zuma elected party president in December 2007 and unceremoniously ousting then President Thabo Mbeki.

    Protesting youth leaguers threatened to do the same to Zuma at the 2012 ANC congress.

    "In 2012 we are voting Mbalula," they chanted, referring to former youth league president and current Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula. Whoever wins the party presidency gets to run for president. Seventeen years after winning the fight against apartheid, the ANC dominates politics in this country.

    The South African Communist Party, an ally of the ANC, charged the protesters were trying to blackmail Zuma and condemned "those who are clandestinely supporting this agenda."

    ANC spokesman Jackson Mtethu accused youth league leaders of mobilizing the protesters and said they "should also take full responsibility for the violence, criminality and ill-discipline that has accompanied these crowds."

    Malema, 30, called a news conference on Monday to deny that he was bussing in supporters.

    ___

    Nqobile Ntshangase contributed to this report from Johannesburg.

     

    60 comments

    • Mpho  •  8 mths ago
      Im a South African who actually lives in South Africa. Don't believe everything you read. We are fine and happy. No plans to move out. You can waste your time talking bad about us, u wont change the fact that we are happy.
    • RAY  •  8 mths ago
      Malema is correct ,the old ANC has become too compromised and accomodating to the remnants of the white aparthied racist regime. The ANC under the current leader ship seems to be stagnant ,and satisfied with the status quo. It has become too personal to the top leadership and the common people has become all but irrelevant.
    • Stephen Rice  •  8 mths ago
      People learn from what they see and the experience they have. especially when deprived. But most people know nothing of that. Funny thing is most of these people on here spewing racist #$%$ probably consider themselves "god" fearing in some respect. I really wonder, with the religious views the majority of you have, how you expect in any regard, to be going to a place of everlasting life and happiness. I really do... Good luck with that. I hope the overall creator has more mercy than you and your ancestors did on my ancestors. The good thing.. my people out of all people was able to bear the brunt. Will you? Yea growth is needed but as it took 2500+ years for slavery to end, I believe in the same time we will grow to be twice what we once were. What can you say for yourself and to the entity that created you? And it sucks because around the good side of you guys, some much happiness and good is present, but you wallow in your hatred.... Such sad sad stuff...
    • Lucky to have lived in Am ...  •  8 mths ago
      Just another African country's downward spiral, the stupid making decisions for the ignorant. If you have the means, no matter what your skin color, leave Africa now. Abandon the insanity.
    • Jabulani Boy  •  8 mths ago
      JZ....Go back to the Mandela fundamentals. Open your eyes to your own ANCYL. Get rid of hooligans, and they all are, including Malema. But first make little pea-brain Malema pay for all the damage. He has the money in cash.
    • Chris Perron  •  8 mths ago
      It's just like with most "aspiring" leaders.
      People are sheep to the lucid notion that these upstart leaders will bring forth an age of prosperity, while actually they are willing to neglect the uncertainty of the future.
    • SS-N-19 Shipwreck  •  8 mths ago
      Ounce upon a time scientist went out of their way to say Neanderthals did not breed with modern humans. I always knew better and didn't follow this thought. Look at the behavior of some people and you can see that monster is still there inside. When afraid it yaks about other races, it likes to kill aminals just for sport, it fish just for sport, and it will kill just for sport. Neanderthals ounce had the bright idea that they were superior to sapiens; I mean their bigger brain and all. But we all know the full story don't we. Sure at first the sapiens looked weaker and used the same tools but things changed. Now, no Neanderthals are left on planet Earth. Their bigger brain was worthless after all; evolution seens to be moving in the opposite direction. Watch out man
      • aussea 8 mths ago
        watch out black man.
    • SS-N-19 Shipwreck  •  8 mths ago
      White racist are always the most stupid people anywhere. Ever wonder why; they talk about subjects they know nothing about. I guess when your IQ is 70 or below the Neanderthal just comes out in the open!!! Poor little racist are like a coward dog behind a fence. Most whites are good people but this filt will always be there I guess. Sad thing is that they pertend to be blind to their hate; poor little babies. FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET!!!!!
      • aussea 8 mths ago
        black planet of the APES are already here i---n South Africa and Zimbabwe--!!LOSER !!
      • SS-N-19 Shipwreck 8 mths ago
        Aussea that can't possibly be you in the photo...My crystal balls say you are most likely some tired old white chick thats on the run from some where. However, it the photo is correct you got me floored....
      • aussea 8 mths ago
        hey I am white I dont do N&GGERS !!LOSERS !!
    • Cuda  •  8 mths ago
      shoot those wild monkeys....
    • rufus  •  8 mths ago
      The blacks just want something for nothing. Take it from the white man. The blacks kill over 3500 whites here in the US every year.
    • Oba Dumbass  •  8 mths ago
      Can we send our Nobel Peace Prize President over there to install some law and order?? In fact send both...Al Gore loves black people.
      • Murfdog 8 mths ago
        Law and order ? How long did it take for cops in LA to restore order after the Rodney King affair ? Police in SA have never had a problem restoring order quickly...never !
    • waynea  •  8 mths ago
      I wonder if other black American citizens reads all that’s going on in South Africa, Somalia, Nigeria, and all the other countries on the continent of Africa thinks you know if it wasn’t for the (Dutch) bringing the slaves out of Nigeria and the other countries of Africa to the United States I would be right in the middle of this. If you’re black and born in the United States you’re a black American citizen not an African-American., so be as proud of it as I am.
      • johnsmith 8 mths ago
        This old white man loves Waynea.
      • Stephen Rice 8 mths ago
        Or if Africa wasn't raped of it's natural resources because of failing European economies and subsequently thrown into tribal disputes by the dividing up of tribal land, Africa could very well be the most powerful continent in the world. You should be disappointed if you truly are a African American for not fully knowing your history, you make up the 90% of our race that is ill informed thus make terrible decisions and thus bring it down as a whole.
      • JD 8 mths ago
        Waynea is 100% correct. He is a very samll minority in the black community. My family was from Sicily yeah I wish I knew more about my ancestry and where my family fame from but when people ask me what I am, I proudly say American. You see Italy had no opportunity for my family and it is not exactly killing it today either. So I am happy America let my family in.
        While I understnad my family came in of their own free will no one will argue we are way better off here. So I understand Waynea's point.
        I also see your point Stephen, but you also left out the fact that it wasn't very difficult for the Europeans to manipulate the tribes in Africa because they had no unity and no sense to ally with each other to throw the white man out. So I can't agree with you.
        Also you state Africa would be the most powerful continent in the world yet while the Europeans were exploring the world and the Chinese were cultivating gun powder Africans were living in mud huts throwing spears something Europeans haven't done for a very long time. So it actually is false Africans couldn't have become the most powerful continetn on the world.
        But America has fostered and environment where after many years a black man became president of the most powerful continent on the planet and that is no africa friend.
    • corny  •  8 mths ago
      Ahhh, now I see why there are a few white motocross (offroad motorcycle racing) riders here from south africa....I wondered why they came here.
      • Murfdog 8 mths ago
        To extract your wealth. You're paying them in dollars, aren't you ?
    • Philip  •  8 mths ago
      Reinstate apartheid so that citizens can again walk the streets in safety.
    • corny  •  8 mths ago
      Blacks are just too lazy and stupid to do anything for themselves, they want to ride the white man's coat tails
    • WillieJohn  •  8 mths ago
      Always the shortcut
      --Nationalize some one else's property
      ---------Never works
      --try using some of the birth control we sent you
    • Beowulf  •  8 mths ago
      HERE THEY GO AGAIN. Remember Rodesia (Spelling?) which is now Zimbabwe (Spelling?) was once a food exporting country. The whites were the farmers and brought the country into the 20 century 50 years ago. Then anarchists like this killed and took over the white's farms and the country ended up having to import food and had 2,000,000% inflation. YES 2 million percent. Whites did raise everyones standard of living at least to some degree. International aid is drying up because "rich" countries have their own financial problems.
      You can talk all of De Bere's (Spelling?) diamonds and give it to these anarchists and others who will not work but what will you do next year and the year after that.
    • johnsmith  •  8 mths ago
      The smart whites have immigrated to England or the USA to keep from being murdered.. If S. Africa does like Zimbabwe they will go down like Zimbabwe.
    • Booboo  •  8 mths ago
      The world is full of jurassic retardos.
      Hugo wants everybody to have a lifestyle like Cuba, the lice infested mullahs want the iranians to live in a world that's flat, the taliban want to "achieve" a 7th century lifestyle (without realizing that they're already there) and these baboons want to turn South Africa into another Zimbabwe.
      And our own little hugo wants the US to look like greece - and he's getting us there fast.
    • SS-N-19 Shipwreck  •  8 mths ago
      I see a lot of racist comments from little momas boy who live in the basement. They know zero facts about South Africa or its people. They want to use Zimbabwe as a tool to measure South Africans; Wrong you nutt bags. There is a very good reason why South Africa is moving in the right direction. Its called education, education, education; South African blacks came to the good old US and some went to europe and got their education. They did not stay in those countries like others do. They all go back to South Africa. They saw freedom coming and were prepared for it. Noticed how they have been able to move into leadership positions in all areas. The black nation is seing its birth in south arfrica and a wave will hit the rest of the continent...Watch out man
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