{As South Africa enters its 22nd year since the end of apartheid it seems another revolution is at hand. Or is it?}
Judging by the tumultuous events of the last few weeks it seems like Nelson Mandela’s peaceful revolution is about to give birth to its opposite number.
Covering one of the many protests, I marched with Julius Malema and his thousands of Economic Freedom Fighters (EEF) through Johannesburg.
All I could see was a sea of red t-shirts in the streets of the city of gold.
We began our march from Mary Fitzgerald Square. The protest grew into the biggest march seen in the city in recent times as we walked to the South African Reserve Bank branch, our first stop.
The cantankerous Mr Malema told the bank officials who were brave enough to come out and receive the memorandum, that he wanted zero charges on bank fees for the poor and the aged.
In the scorching heat we then proceeded to the Chamber of Mines.
As usual, he did not hold back when he told the chamber’s official that the EFF wants to “nationalise the mines”.
I asked Malema how many years he plans to keep marching against the ruling ANC.
He told me: “It won’t be long. We want to own the means of production. The time of the ANC is over.”
It was when he reached the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, in Africa’s richest square mile Sandton, that he showed his true colours.
He told Stock Exchange CEO Nicky Newton-King: “We are not Mandela. We do not preach reconciliation. We want remorse.”
And it is precisely because of this line that I asked myself the question: Are we at the cusp of the second revolution?
Student protests
But this is not just about Malema. This is about the people of the Republic of South Africa.
I also walked with university students from Wits and UJ (University of Johannesburg) who were campaigning against a rise in fees.
Source:BBC:[South Africa still awaits its golden age->http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35106236]
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