Malema has pressed for policies that would nationalize the mines and drive white farmers off the land. These disastrous policies are like those of Mugabe in neighboring Zimbabwe.
What remains to be seen is what happens to Malema and his substantial following. Will Malema operate within the political system and establish a new political party in competition with the ANC? Or will he perhaps become a violent revolutionary and take up arms against the government? There are many precedents for each option in sub-Saharan Africa.
