From HAYIBO: Malema to be protected
JOHANNESBURG. The ANC has confirmed that Youth League president Julius Malema needs police "blue light" protection as he is in danger of being killed literally, figuratively and in the ANCYL sense. According to a spokesman Malema was almost killed last week after being exposed to a multiple-choice question in a freak IQ test accident.
Overburdened taxpayers heard on the weekend that they would be paying R300,000 per month for VIP "blue light" police protection for Malema as his life was allegedly in danger.
According to ANCYL spokesman Tantrums Maponya, Malema had been rushed to hospital last week after "racist reactionaries" left an IQ test open on a table in his office.
"We can confirm that President Malema was exposed for 27 seconds to a multiple-choice question involving the relative speeds of two trains, one traveling east and the other west, that leave their stations at the same time," said Maponya.
Asked why it had taken Malema 27 seconds to stop reading the question, Maponya said that Malema was a "cautious reader" and had needed to sound out the words before fully comprehending their "despicable content".
But, he added, the attack by the potentially lethal IQ test had been just the latest in a string of attempts on Malema's life.
"Comrade Julius is constantly being targeted by assassins," he explained. "Two weeks ago while he was redeploying a bag of Jelly Tots into his mouth one of them escaped and got lodged in a plug socket.
"He attempted to retrieve the Tot by maneuvering his tongue into the socket, much as one does with a girl who has stayed for breakfast and taxi money, and was only saved by the foresight of the ANCYL which had failed to pay the electricity bill and had been disconnected."
He said Malema had also narrowly avoided assassination early last month when he had tried to see how much petrol was in his Mercedes by shining his Zippo into the petrol tank.
"Fortunately he had run the car dry during a high-speed journey from his home to the Aroma liquor store," said Maponya.
Asked if University of the Free State rector Jonathan Jansen would also be receiving a blue-light guard, given that he has been threatened with death by the Free State ANCYL, Maponya said that Jansen would probably only be killed literally and figuratively.
"He'll be fine as long as he doesn't leave his office," he said.