For a self-proclaimed future president of South Africa, Julius Malema is already showing infantile cluelessness about how the people he would lord it over can make money outside the country’s borders.
That became apparent when he was asked a question by a journalist who identified himself as Sifiso Mahlangu from Independent Media at a dialogue that he (Malema) hosted for editors and senior journalists. Some details in Mahlangu’s question were incorrect: that former president Ian Khama “declared you an illegal immigrant”, that Khama “lost elections, fled his country and now lives in Hyde Park.”
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