London(ZimEye)The expelled leader of South Africa’s ANC party Youth League, Julius Malema, has been barred from entering the United Kingdom, ZimEye can reveal.
Malema who was scheduled to address African and West Indian black exiles at a recent Birmingham Africa Liberation Day function, (at the weekend) failed to obtain a Visa together with another speaker from Tanzania who was also barred by the British embassy, according to conference organisers. Conference organisers told ZimEye exclusively that Malema failed to obtain British embassy clearance. “Julius Malema didn’t make it to Africa Liberation Day,” a senior organising committee member who declined to be named said adding that even another speaker from Tanzania had been barred. “Neither the commissioner from Tanzania. The British embassy failed to issue a VISA when they should have. So that was a sabotage. “It was deliberate. They have done it before, and of course we will be taking it with the relevant authorities,” he said. Earlier last week, one of the senior organisers, Mr Bini Butuakwa, had told ZimEye Malema was having serious VISA problems:“We are having a bit of the problem at the moment which is getting him into the country. If we don’t get him….we going to get him on Skype,” he said. “He was going to come but we are getting some problem”, he added. Zimbabwe minister funding trip Mr Butuakwa however stated that Zimbabwe’s information Minister Webster Shamu had promised to pay for Malema’s air fares, should he have problems. “The Information Minister in Zimbabwe said that he will get him to come over and if he has a problem with paying he would cover the fare…,” he said. (ZIMBABWE, ZimEye Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
