Julius Malema, a philanthropist.

I don’t know about you, but I for one am feeling like a real tit! I can’t believe I fell for that silly City Press article claiming Julius Malema uses his secret trust fund to fund his lavish lifestyle. It turns out he’s actually a young philanthropist and uses it to “fund charitable causes.” He’s even bought wheelchairs with it!

Finally speaking out against these vicious and unfounded rumours started by the City Press last weekend, Malema had the following to say in his own defense yesterday:

I would not take bribes because I know that my enemies are out to destroy me. Many business people had deposited money into the Ratanang Family Trust’s account because I had approached them to fund charitable causes. I would not put the names of my son and grandmother on the trust fund if it was meant to carry out illegal activities. How many leaders and public figures have got trusts and community trusts? In South Africa there is not what we call secret trusts, there is nothing like that. This trust they are talking about is a trust that continues to help the poorest of the poor. It is that trust that donated wheelchairs here. That trust has built churches, that trust has built houses for the poor, that trust has taken so many kids to school, and that trust will continue to do that. I don’t care who says what. If they want to lock me up for what I believe in, let them do that.

His patience also seem to have run out with the “anonymous source” who leaked all this false information to City Press:

City Press is protecting an alleged corrupter while exposing the alleged corrupted. Why is City Press protecting a criminal who has paid a bribe and who has accepted that (he has paid) a bribe? Such a person must be exposed. And by the way, I’m taking you to court City Press for defamation of character. In your defense you’ll be forced to reveal this ape!

[Source: Times Live]