Most South African newspapers this morning had ANC youth league president Julius Malema's grovelling apology to President Jacob Zuma and the ANC as headline.
Last month he lashed out at BBC journalist Jonah Fisher at a press conference I was present at. He called the visibly embarassed Fisher a "bloody agent" "bastard", and a "racist" as well as saying "rubbish is what you are covering inside your trousers."
And finally kicked Fisher out of the press conference.
Malema faced the ANC's disciplinary committee after a trip to Zimbabwe, where he declared the ANC's support for President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, thereafter saying other parties in that country were "mickey-mouse" parties. This is despite the fact that he has no direct influence on the ANC's policies.
He also defied the ANC and sang racially divisive struggle songs in Zimbabwe, and made comments on the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche.
Asides issuing the apology, Malema has now been sentenced to pay a R10,000 fine (about 900 GBP) to a youth development project. He is also to attend the ANC's "political school" for lessons in leadership and anger management.
Last night, party officials also told the press that if Malema is found guilty of the smae offence within the next two years, his membership of the ANC "shall be summarily suspended..."
But most comments show the public are not taken by this development: http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article445495.ece/Malema--I-am--sorry
*PHOTOGRAPH BY TIMES.LIVE.CO.ZA
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