'Smoke screen' - Juju disses 'Pallo's nationalisation report'
JULIUS Malema weighed heavily on the ANC task team that warned the party against the nationalisation of mines, saying its work was influenced by veteran ANC leader Pallo Jordan.
Pallo Jordan. Picture by Martin RhodesIt is possible that the research was a smoke screen to legitimise the personal opinions of Comrade Jordan and that is not how the ANC works
The team last week produced a study that said the nationalisation of mines would be a disaster as it would virtually cripple South Africa's economy.
An incensed Malema told ANC Youth League leaders on Friday that when the research team was constituted in February 2011, the ANCYL wrote to the leadership of the ANC and publicly objected to the inclusion of "Comrade Paul (sic) Jordan in the research team because we knew he was conflicted."
He said the ANCYL statement, released on February 21 last year, 2011, particularly objected to the inclusion of Jordan as one of the researchers "because he has publicly pronounced his opposition to nationalisation of mines".
The ANCYL therefore believed Jordan's inclusion in the research team "will altogether undermine the integrity of the research process," said Malema.
He said they called on the ANC to reconsider his inclusion in the team, saying they believed "he is prejudiced and his contribution will forever be questionable ..."
"As we said more than 12 months ago, there is completely nothing different between what the nationalisation report contains and what Comrade Jordan wrote in the ANC Journal Umrabulo in April 2010," Malema told the ANCYL leaders on Friday.
"The research team visited 13 countries and the only conclusion they could come to were the opinions held by Comrade Jordan in 2010.
"It is possible that the research was a smoke screen to legitimise the personal opinions of Comrade Jordan and that is not how the ANC works," he fumed.
The preliminary report on the nationalisation of mines, said Malema, "does not only defy the Freedom Charter, it defies what the ANC national general council (NGC) said should happen.
"Any straight thinking person will admit that the basis of the research, study tours and discussions on nationalisation was on the basis that there was greater consensus on nationalisation of mines and other strategic sectors of the economy."
He said the ANC research was "pure disregard and disrespect of the ... ANC NGC."
RealAfricanDemocrat
This is really a pathetic report which should never have been published. Both the the editor and journalist muat have been napping. and once again we the public have to endure this shoddy journalism. Moipone should really do her homework. Even a cub journalis will know that there is a difference between Paul Jordaan and Pallo Jordaan. If Moipone thinks that Pallo Jordaan was responsible for the nationalisation report, the public is being misinformed. I hope someone at the Sunday World will notice this and one wonders what the likes of Justice Malala are doing. I hardly ever buy the Sunday World and whenever I do I realise that I have not been missing anything.
