The head of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, has apparently asked traffic police in Limpopo who had the unmitigated gall to stop him for speeding ... [Interjections.] ... "Do you know who I am?" The DA thought we would utilise this opportunity to assist him in answering this vexed question.
He is the man who believes there is one law for South African citizens yet another law for him. He is the man who will slap a neighbour who has the temerity to ask that the music at his housewarming be turned down at 03:00 am. He is the man who has turned hate speech into an art form, who has insulted the Premier of the Western Cape in the basest, most libellous of terms, indeed who has so very many cases pending against him that I have lost count.
Julius Malema is a man who citizens at grass-roots level believe acts as a mouthpiece for the President who said he would fire Thabo Mbeki and indeed any other ANC member sitting in this House, should he get the urge.
The man who says he lives by economic policies that have bankrupted countries and has been discredited for generations while the intricacies of the policies escape him. He is extremely capable of parroting the violent, militaristic rhetoric that accompanies them. I am referring to the incident where his Idi Amin-like arrogance had him throwing his not insubstantial weight about in Limpopo. This was because he was caught at a speed trap. Such is the ANC today that he failed to apologise and pay up, but instead the threats began.
Is it true he phoned various Limpopo bigwigs to pull strings? Did his threats intimidate the police to the extent that they gave him a free pass for speeding? Malema's ego and contempt for the law the rest of us must respect, is unparalleled and one has to ask the other hon members in the House: Is this someone you honestly believe is a leader in the making worthy of inheriting the ANC? [Applause.]