Gayton McKenzie, once a notorious bank robber and gangster, spend some time in jail and is now a South African motivational speaker and author. McKenzie has done well for himself, and remains on a never-ending campaign trying to combat crime in South Africa. There were rumors that McKenzie bank rolled the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) political party. According to McKenzie, Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF is "the biggest thief I have ever met."
Here is an open letter to JULIUS MALEMA by GAYTON MCKENZIE
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Dear Julius Malema
"THUG TO THUG"
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 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 went immediately 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 ten 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 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 Jacob 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
Gayton McKenzie, Patriotic Alliance President
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