Article by Rhoda Kadalie, 1 June 2010 - Business Day

JULIUS Malema’s African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is proof that political power ought not to be given to mindless thugs. And the league’s attempts to scupper Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille’s meeting in Gugulethu on Monday last week, ahead of by-elections, was one of the surest signs yet that should the ruling party face the prospect of defeat at the polls, it will resort to violence.

If generalising from the le...