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MDC condemns Malema's irresponsible and immature outbursts
Movement for Democratic Change
April 09, 2010

The MDC is dismayed by the continued use of inflammatory and hate speech by African National Congress Youth League president, Julius Malema.

Although the MDC is a proponent for freedom of expression and association, we are concerned by the improper and impolitic statements made by Malema about the MDC following his visit to Zimbabwe last week.

Malema should know that the MDC is not an opposition party but a ruling party that overwhelmingly beat Zanu PF on 29 March 2008. It is unbridled naivety on the part of Malema to refer to a party that overwhelmingly won an election as a "popcorn party."

Malema's pilgrimage and his chanting of Zanu PF slogans represent gross interference in Zimbabwe's internal party politics to prop up the fortunes of the rejected Zanu PF.

The MDC is a party that is fighting for democracy, rule of law and human rights for all unlike Zanu PF, which has a violent track record, which saw over 20 000 people killed during the Gukurahundi period in the 1980s and as recently as 2008. This violence prompted even Malema himself to say militancy does not mean violence

The MDC is shocked by Malema's claims that the MDC is holding rallies in leafy suburbs such as Sandton in South Africa when it is well known that the MDC has been holding real change rallies across the country, which have been attended by thousands of Zimbabweans who overwhelmingly voted for change on 29 March 2008.

The MDC is a party of excellence. We demand an unequivocal position from the ANC on whether Malema's utterances represent the official position of that party which is involved in a delicate mediation process in this country.

We hope the ANC realizes the gravity of Malema's utterances and their significance to the people of Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans know what they want. Zimbabweans want real change as represented by the MDC. Zimbabweans deserve hope, freedom, prosperity, security and dignity.

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