OPINION - THERE comes a time when one has to call a spade a spade - and not be afraid of such a spade.
Julius Malema and his bunch of cantankerous, disobedient, almost dishonourable and malicious misfits are nothing more than pathetic racists, lurking to grab any opportunity to sow racial discord.
The latest attack on Minister Pravin Gordhan and his daughter is reflective of the depths the EFF will rummage, so that their possible criminal activity is side-stepped.
Malema is a blatant and despicable racist. He feigns intelligence, portrays political bravado and believes his nuisance value is the alpha and omega designed to assuage our political woes.
Characteristically, the chorus of his willing sycophants and lackeys, who mimic their Hitler-like leader, are off-tune most of the time, and with their garbled rhetoric and an antipathetic disposition can only spell disaster as they try to impress.
Malema, whose ability - or patent lack thereof - to understand that racist intonations, flagrant accusations and attacks on people reflect nothing more than his idiotic, illiberal mentality, is clearly beyond redemption. His cohorts equally resemble the idiocy associated with their pompous leader.
I am at the end of my tether to stand back and observe this megalomaniacal and egotistical despot unleash his vitriol on people of Indian descent without rebuttal or recourse.
What gets me is that he believes his chicanery and internecine outbursts will gain him political mileage in a country where racism has always been a bane of discontent - even through democracy.
The Indian community is no longer the docile, stoic and indentured mendicants of yore.
They are a progressive, contributory and patriotic community whose constitutional protection is enshrined and will not waver, buckle or bend by the unwarranted and racist attacks by less than intelligible upstarts whose only aim is to seek political glory - even at the expense of denigrating fellow compatriots.
Can one really believe that Malema and his troop are interested in the welfare of our country?
Attacking Gordhan and his daughter, especially with a racial slant, is an attack on all South Africans of Indian origin - and I will not relent in standing up for the rights of a people who are equal patriots of this country.
Malema must realise that his and the EFF’s cacophony will be smothered by the reality that the Indian community will not be cannon fodder for their acerbic attacks.
He will be reminded that an almost forgotten Struggle slogan of yore, “an injury to one is an injury to all”, will resurrect and devour his toxic obsession to demean the Indian community.