julius malema in bloemfontein, south africa, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. mr malema, south africans are facing a very grave economic crisis. there s deep uncertainty in the country. why are you adding to that uncertainty by calling for the removal of president ramaphosa? it s the most logical thing that, when a leader of a current government doesn t perform well, or the country is in a crisis, that leader should leave office and give others an opportunity who can come and do a much better work. because i don t think that mr ramaphosa has got a coherent plan as to how he ll save south africa. but that s not the way democracy works, mr malema. mr ramaphosa has a mandate given to him by the south african people. and, indeed, if you look at the business community, if we re talking about the economy, it seems business leaders think that removing ramaphosa would actually make south africa s situation worse. no, democracy works like that. that s why our constitution pro
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we pursue and hold the executive accountable. we still want answers from what happened in marikana, because. well, let s not. all right, let s not go back to the marikana mine s incident, because you had your say on that many times over many years. let us focus on what is happening to the people of south africa today. you ve got an unemployment rate at a record well over 30%. you ve got hunger across the nation. there are people in your nation who are facing starvation. and you, because of your politicking right now, are calling for a national shutdown . you seem to want to bring the country to a halt. how is that going to help? if you have not been part of picket lines, you will never know how important picket lines are. in south africa, we are where we are today because we have always opted for picket lines.