African National Congress Youth League chief Julius Malema on Wednesday brought members of the branch that vandalised township toilets to Parliament, but declined to comment on their threat to make Cape Town ungovernable.
Malema introduced the delegates from the ANCYL's Dullah Omar region to MPs, saying they "felt that they needed to be part of this important meeting" on discussing the formation of a state-owned mining company.
The group applauded Malema's submission to MPs in which he urged an immediate moratorium on issuing mining licences to prepare for the nationalisation of mines.
Malema said nationalisation would become ANC policy in 2012 and private companies would be forced to operate in a partnership with the state that would limit their profit margins to 10 percent or less.
Like Malema and ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu, the delegates from the Dullah Omar region refused to talk to the media about the destruction of newly-erected toilet enclosures in Makhaza in Khayelitsha on Monday.
The violence broke out in protest over 50 families having had to use open toilets built by Democratic Alliance-led local authorities for a year.
Malema sought shelter in the ANC chief whip's office when journalists tried to ask him about the unrest during a tea break. Shivambu told reporters to "stop harassing me".
Pressed by a Beeld reporter, he angrily retorted: "Go and ask your mother."
Malema introduced the delegates from the ANCYL's Dullah Omar region to MPs, saying they "felt that they needed to be part of this important meeting" on discussing the formation of a state-owned mining company.
The group applauded Malema's submission to MPs in which he urged an immediate moratorium on issuing mining licences to prepare for the nationalisation of mines.
Malema said nationalisation would become ANC policy in 2012 and private companies would be forced to operate in a partnership with the state that would limit their profit margins to 10 percent or less.
Like Malema and ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu, the delegates from the Dullah Omar region refused to talk to the media about the destruction of newly-erected toilet enclosures in Makhaza in Khayelitsha on Monday.
The violence broke out in protest over 50 families having had to use open toilets built by Democratic Alliance-led local authorities for a year.
Malema sought shelter in the ANC chief whip's office when journalists tried to ask him about the unrest during a tea break. Shivambu told reporters to "stop harassing me".
Pressed by a Beeld reporter, he angrily retorted: "Go and ask your mother."
- Sapa
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