Gayton McKenzie, president of political party Patriotic Alliance and ex con, took to Twitlonger on Wednesday 23rd April and posted his open letter to infamous EFF leader and so called "revolutionary" Julius Malema, where he spoke his mind on what he thinks about the controversial leader.
And of course moments later the open letter started trending and well for those that haven't read the letter, here it is below:
I wronged people in this country two decades ago when I took part in
heinous crimes. I have been trying to repay my debt to society for most
of the years since.
First, by successfully
exposing corruption in jail
then by speaking to millions of school kids across this country to
dissuade them from a life of crime. I am now dedicating my life to the
Patriotic Alliance, which puts ending gangsterism – but more
importantly, the conditions that lead to gangsterism in communities – at
the top of its agenda. We must get our young people into the mainstream
economy.
I see this open letter as part of repaying my many debts to society.
If I did not speak up to warn the people of South Africa, but especially
our youth, against you, it would mean I have no love for this country.
Julius, you and I are not "revolutionaries". We both know that. We
both shop at the same Louis Vuitton and Gucci shops. We both have
watches worth hundreds of thousands. We wear more money on our wrists
than a miner at Marikana will ever hold in his hands. This week you had
the audacity to say that you wear Louis Vuitton to "inspire" the poor.
But the poor get nothing out of you wearing flashy clothes.
For people like us to call ourselves revolutionaries is an insult to
history's real revolutionaries. Patrice Lumumba is rolling in his grave.
Thomas Sankara wants to get out of his grave and take back his words
that have found their way onto your whisky-swilling tongue. If simply
wearing a beret makes you a revolutionary, then my mum and all her
friends have been revolutionaries for far longer than you.
You have spent more money at any of your own lavish parties than
Kenny Kunene ever did. But Kenny never spent public money. It was his
own money that he worked for openly. He never earned his money through
misdirected tenders to shady companies that were hard to track. You
bankrupted the ANC Youth League. You bankrupted Limpopo. You bankrupted
yourself. Now you want to bankrupt what's left of South Africa.
The difference between you and me is that you use politics to take
money from the poor. I give money to politics. I am not seeking a
position through politics. My name is not even on any list. But you are
trying to get to Parliament at all costs. Unlike what you may read about
me, I never received any government money. I never received any
tenders. I was never a beneficiary in any BEE deal. But you have never
worked an honest day in your life to earn your own money. You don't know
what that feels like. You don't know what it means.
When the doors of government's treasury were slammed in your face,
you immediately went to the poor with your cap in hand; promising them
the world, when you needed their money to pay for your tax problems. You
are like a man who steals a cellphone and then goes back to his victim
to ask for airtime. You exploit our people's genuine hunger for a better
life.
You want to nationalise the mines, but that will take huge amounts of
public money to sustain – with no guarantees of profit. You will have
to take money that we need right now to build houses and schools for
poor people and you will have to gamble with that money to build mines.
Nationalisation is not woodwork.
Will you be the one to look our old women in the eyes and say that
they can't have their houses today because you want to invest in mines
that will perhaps give us profits in 10 years' time? Our minerals will
not crawl out of the earth by themselves. And we know that any profits
will first have to survive going through your sticky hands before they
reach the rest of us.
Jacob Zuma's Nkandla upgrade was wrong on all fronts. But you also
took taxpayers' money to demolish a R3-million house in order to build a
R16-million house in Sandton. Your own Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
commissar Andile Mngxitama criticised you for this very thing three
years ago. Does he think you are no longer that man? None of us should
be that naive.
You have insulted so many of our people. You insulted MaMbeki. You
insulted Baba Buthelezi. You insulted Naledi Pandor. You had to
apologise to all of them. Now you have insulted MaKhumalo, Jacob Zuma's
first wife. She is a grandmother and you thought it funny to sexualise
her and ask us to imagine her in a bathing suit. Is the only old woman
who you respect your own grandmother in Seshego? You speak to no one
with respect. Anyone who disagrees with you must know that a choice
insult is already on its way from you. When the public protector went
for you, you had nothing good to say about her. When the same public
protector went for Zuma and Pansy Tlakula, you hailed her work. How
stupid do you think we are?
Most of your erstwhile comrades in the ANC remain too scared to say
anything against you, because they know that they stole with you, right
alongside you. You know all their secrets.
You get two kinds of politicians in this country: the ones who come
from prison and those who must still go to prison. You belong to the
latter. I may be an ex-thief, but you are a present-day thief. You,
particularly you, cannot be calling all white people in this country
thieves.
I have a serious problem with you telling our young people that they
must take the mines and take the land. All you can think of in your
choice of language is, "Take, take and destroy." You are inculcating an
attitude of taking instead of contributing and working. Our youth do not
need that. No one needs that. Our youth need to be empowered
educationally and financially to grow this country.
You are the modern-day Nongqawuse. There was no one there in 1856 to
warn our people against that false prophet. Somebody needs to have the
courage to warn us against you. I'm not scared of you. But I am scared
of what will happen to this country if our young people don't realise
what you are before it is too late.
For most of my younger years I was surrounded by conmen and thieves.
But you are the biggest thief I ever met. You, truly, are the Con-mander
in Thief.
I wish Kenny would take South Africa into his confidence over the real reasons why he left EFF.
Yours truly,
Gayton McKenzie,
Patriotic Alliance President "
I couldn't really care about the corny insults but DAMN! It had to be one of the realest things I've read in a WHILE.
I don't know about you, but I'm anxiously waiting for Malema's response to this. He's been awfully quiet I must say.
@Yoli_Dyantyi
@G_XCON - Gayton McKenzie
SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!!
On Twitter, as per usual, there's rumors and what seems to be "evidence" that back up these rumors of an altercation that took place between DJ Euphonik and Bafana Bafana goalie, Itumeleng Khune.
![[HOT TOPIC] The picture that set Twitter alight](http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/849904470.jpg?1398411514)
