SHAUN SMILLIE

ANC YOUTH League presi-dent Julius Malema wantsthe youth to take celebrities’

posters off their walls and replacethem with pictures of revolutionar-ies such as former ANC leaderOliver Tambo.

The reason was so that whenyou came home and had done some-thing wrong, Tambo’s eyes wouldfollow you around the room andmake you a better revolutionary.

Malema last night addressed stu-dents at the University of Johan-nesburg’s Soweto campus, where hespoke on economic freedom.

He told the packed audience thatthey needed to become economicfreedom fighters.

Every generation had a mission,he told them, and today theirswas to become economic freedomfighters.

Foremost was the pursuit ofnationalisation. Malema saidnationalisation would unite andreconcile South Africans, and thatthe poor had the right to benefit.

“There are two economies inthis country – the rich and the poor.Economic inequalities divide us.”

The ANCYL leader said whitesmade up 10 percent of the popu-lation but controlled 90 percent ofthe wealth.

Nationalisation could become areality if parties like the PanAfricanist Congress and AzanianPeople’s Organisation helped inobtaining the 66 percent majorityneeded in Parliament, he added.

Kimberley was a perfect exam-ple of a place in which capitalismhad done nothing for the people.

Malema said diamonds should

have made Kimberley a Joburg,but the mine companies had takenthe wealth and left the community“hopeless”.

“The coloniser continues toexploit mineral resources, theOppenheimer family failed to evenbuild one university,” he said.

He also took the opportunity toexplain that the youth league did

not want regime change inBotswana.

The league only wanted to sup-port the opposition party with“strategies and tactics”.

Malema also came out in sup-port of disgraced journalist EricMiyeni, who he said was the victimof white editorial rules.

“If you don’t agree with the

(media) cabal, they destroy you. Wemust support Eric,” said Malema.

He took time out to attack thethree white economists whoappeared on the SABC earlier lastnight speaking against nationalisa-tion; former president FW de Klerk;and what he said was the Stellen-bosch mafia – the five families heclaims run South Africa.

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Nothing tasty about this fried chicken robberySUNGULA NKABINDE

TWO ARMED robbery suspects werearrested yesterday after allegedlyholding up the Tasty Fried Chickenrestaurant in Newtown.

Witnesses in an adjacent shop, Rit-ual Stores, said they were listening tomusic when the incident occurred.

They alleged that they first sawpeople running down Bree Streettowards the city centre and then hearda shot coming from the shop next door.

According to a witness, the robbersmust not have noticed that there wasa police vehicle idling at the red robot

when they fired the shot. The copswent into the chicken outlet andarrested the men.

“Those guys are stupid. First ofall, they are robbing a chicken store onthe busiest, most (police) patrolledstreet in the CBD… there is a cameraright there.

“And to make it worse, they didn’teven have a getaway car,” said anotherwitness, who did not want to benamed.

“What were they going to do (afterrobbing the place)? Catch a bus?”asked a customer who had just beentold the story after walking in.

CORNERED: Twomen were arrestedafter trying to rob

Tasty Fried Chickenat the corner ofBree and Henry

Nxumalo streets inNewtown, Joburg,

yesterday.

PICTURE:DUMISANI SIBEKO

FULL OF IDEAS: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema speaks at a seminar on economic freedom at the University ofJohannesburg’s Soweto campus last night. PICTURE: ZIPHOZONKE LUSHABA

Nationalisationwould unite andreconcile SouthAfricans, he says

Be economic revolutionaries – Malema

City tightens screws on church in property rowANNA COX

TOUGH action is going to betaken against church organi-sations who hide behind reli-gion to flout the city’s by-laws.

This is the strong messagebeing sent out by the Johan-nesburg Property Company(JPC), which yesterday soughtto evict the El Peretz Taberna-cle in Observatory from theformer Jewish Guild BowlsClub premises in FrederickStreet.

The premises have beenstanding empty for years. TheJPC had a full-time securityguard on the premises, but inrecent months the church“hijacked” the property andstarted renovating the prem-ises, allegedly without permis-sion of the owners, the JPC.

Mlungisi Shongwe, the JPCexecutive manager of stake-holder management, said: “Itcame to our attention that thechurch is building on our prem-ises without our approval,knowledge or support.

“We have established thatthe church has used a fraudu-lent lease agreement to claimoccupation of the facility with-

out paying for usage.“They have also refused us

access to the premises, whichis itself illegal, even if therewas a valid lease. The fraudu-lent lease document is for a 50-year period. The JPC cannotlegally enter into a lease withany entity without approval bythe mayoral committee, a fullsitting of council, and publicparticipation through wardcouncillors in the affectedarea.

“City of Joburg propertiesare leased through an open-tender process, and there is norecord of any tender or supplychain management processeswith respect to the churchlease,” he said.

The facility was zoned forsocial and sports usage andwas planned to be put out ontender for sports academies,sporting associations and anyother sporting activities thatwould benefit the community,Shongwe added.

The JPC was recentlygranted a court order to evictthe church, and other illegalstructures in the city that didnot follow due process asrequired by the Municipal

Finance Management Act andother regulations when sellingand/or leasing of council-owned land and property.

The lease, seen by The Star,contains no rental figure.

The church was supposedto vacate the premises by theend of last month, but failed todo so, and has lodged an appealagainst the eviction, whichwas due to be heard today.

The church, which has itsheadquarters in the Democra-tic Republic of Congo, holdsservices three times a week.The congregation is about 200-strong.

Yesterday, JPC staff and theSAPS converged on the prem-ises with the intention ofattaching movable property.

A Congolese congregant,who would not be named,opened the doors, revealingthat the interior is being reno-vated.

Church leaders arrived andinsisted the lease they had waslegal, but refused to say howmuch rent they were paying.

Pastor Felly Bimalsha saidhe had official correspondencefrom the JPC confirming thatthe lease was valid.

State hospitals ‘to be better managed’THANDI SKADE

THE NATIONAL Health Department isset to introduce new regulations toensure state hospitals are run by suitablyqualified and competent managers.

This was one of a few announcementsHealth Minister Aaron Motsoaledi madeyesterday.

Motsoaledi said the lack of “uniformnorms and standards” at hospitals acrossthe country and the differing skills and

competency levels of hospital managerswould undermine the successful imple-mentation of the National Health Insur-ance (NHI).

“In some instances, you find that ahospital is managed by a person who is infact at a clerical level... If we have to suc-cessfully implement the NHI and providegood, quality services, we need to correctthese anomalies,” he said.

Motsoaledi said many hospitals wererun like a business and by CEOs wholacked an understanding of how hospi-tals operated. This needed to be dealtwith.

Motsoaledi was speaking after aNational Health Council meeting, duringwhich the regulations were officiallyadopted. They will be gazetted for publiccomment next week.

The regulations propose to divide pub-lic hospitals into district, regional, terti-ary, central and specialised hospitals.

Central hospitals would providehighly specialised tertiary-level healthservices and would be national referralhospitals attached to medical schools.

Motsoaledi also announced the estab-lishment of a district specialist task teamto strengthen services at a district level.

He said TB medication and antibioticscosts had been cut by 18 percent, savingR242 million. Last year, antiretroviraltreatment was cut by 53 percent, resultingin a R4.7 billion saving.

HEALTH TEAM: Deputy minister GwenRamokgopa, left, minister AaronMotsoaledi and director-general PreciousMatsoso. PICTURE: TIRO RAMATLHATSE