Is Julius Malema the second Commander-In-Chief? I wonder

Call me ignorant, or coconutty, as some have since decided to call me since I say 'bad things' about 'our leaders. But tell me, or may I say, enlighten me here. Is Julius Malema the deputy president to our prez, JG Zuma? I wonder really.

The young and easily incitable dude from Limpopo is seen with Zuma on a daily basis, something that makes me want to arrive to my next question as to when does he ever 'think' about us, the youth of South Africa.

During the June 16 celebrations that were held at a place that I was too ignorant to know where it was (possibly Soweto) a man arrived on stage and said something to do with how nobody can unsit Zuma. Now please! Aren't we over such unfortunate comments since Zuma is comfortably in power?

Don't we have better things to talk about than keep on campaigning for a man who is already in power, and on such an important day for the youth? We have crime, disease, corruption, poverty, education, unemployment, all things that need our urgent attention, but a man, older than 33, is still campaigning when actually we have a newly elected government, the one of his choice nogal.

As I listened to a recent interview between a popular talk show host interviewing one Teddy Fletcher (the young entrepreneur who came with an idea of a college that would help the youth of South Africa, particularly those from disadvantaged communities) a chance to unleash their potential I stopped looking at government, or any institution for that matter, as the alpha and omega of the development of this country.

Fletcher believes that every living individual has the ability to make a change for the betterment of their country and ultimately themselves. He further argued that there is no one government in the world that can do everything for everyone, not even rich governments like the USA or Britain. He said that for us to contribute to the positive change of this country we need to invest our precious times in giving back to our communities through teaching the children, the next generations, how to further contribute to their country or communities.

It's high time we realized that the government can only do so much. Even the government that will come after Jacob Zuma will have serious issues to deal with before anything was really done to a majority of people. Let's take a stand as South Africans and believe that yes we can do a lot for our country, yes we can meet our government halfway, or else we shall meet a few years later and just have presidents just reproducing what others before them have said during such meetings as the one Zuma was part of today, that the youth must take charge, or such cliches.

The original was first published by the Cape Times