VOA标准英语2010-ANC Youth Leader: South Africa Will Seize

Peta Thornycroft | Johannesburg 04 April 2010

African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema, at a rally in Harare in neighboring Zimbabwe, 3 April 2010

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The controversial youth leader of South Africa's African National Congress has praised Zimbabwe's program for taking over thousands of white-owned farms, and says his country will follow the example.  Comments were made at a rally organized by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe.

 

ANC Youth Wing leader Julius Malema told a few hundred ZANU-PF youth members the South African party would follow Zimbabwe's lead, and soon take over white farms in South Africa.

Speaking Saturday at a small Harare stadium, he said Zimbabwe had led the "fight over land" and encouraged Zimbabweans to also take over white and foreign-owned companies.

Mulema was in Zimbabwe at the invitation of ZANU-PF Indigenization Minister Saviour¹ Kasukuwere, who has decreed that black Zimbabweans must own 51 percent of all Zimbabwean companies.

Regulations to support the indigenous² legislation were published earlier this year, but Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) trade and industry legislator Welshman Ncube said they had not gone through due parliamentary process and must be re-done.

Malema said people must "embrace indigenization."

He said ZANU-PF and the ANC "fought together in the trenches³" for liberation and must continue to fight against what he called Western imperialism⁴.

Malema said he would not be meeting the MDC, the other main partner in the power-sharing government that won the 2008 elections.  He said this was because it had not taken part in the 1970s anti-colonial war.  The Movement for Democratic Change was formed in 1999.

ZANU-PF accuses the MDC of being a product of Western imperialism.

Malema seized on this theme at the rally.

"We are aware of the imperialists and, in particular, of the West giving them money to take liberation movements out of power," he said.  "They are doing that with the ANC in South Africa.  They are doing that with all progressive forces in Africa.  You are not alone.  Your struggle is our struggle."

Malema surprised some ZANU-PF members when he told them not to engage in violence during elections.  Hundreds of MDC supporters have been killed and tens of thousands injured since the MDC fought its first election in 2000.

"This rumor⁵ that you are using violence in Zimbabwe, is going to make ZANU [PF] lose elections," he added.  "You must engage ideologically⁷.  This is an ideological⁶ warfare⁸.  We must be prepared to change the minds of our people and educate them to understand where do we want to take this country to, not through violence."

Malema told ZANU-PF youth members he would continue singing the ANC struggle song, "Kill the Boer," or the white farmer, even if it meant being sent to jail.  A South African court last week banned the controversial song.

He sang the song at the rally and a few ZANU-PF members struggled to sing along in Malema's Zulu home language.
 

1 saviour   

n.拯救者，救星

参考例句：

• I saw myself as the saviour of my country.我幻想自己为国家的救星。
• The people clearly saw her as their saviour.人们显然把她看成了救星。

2 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

3 trenches   

深沟，地沟( trench的名词复数 )； 战壕

参考例句：

• life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
• The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕，并在田野上呈扇形散开。

4 imperialism   

n.帝国主义，帝国主义政策

参考例句：

• They held the imperialism in contempt.他们鄙视帝国主义。
• Imperialism has not been able to subjugate China.帝国主义不能征服中国。

5 rumor   

n.谣言，谣传，传说

参考例句：

• The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
• The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。

6 ideological   

a.意识形态的

参考例句：

• He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
• He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。

7 ideologically   

adv. 意识形态上地，思想上地

参考例句：

• Ideologically, they have many differences. 在思想意识上，他们之间有许多不同之处。
• He has slipped back ideologically. 他思想退步了。

8 warfare   

n.战争(状态)；斗争；冲突

参考例句：

• He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
• Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。