Julius Malema’s decision to fire a gun at the EFF’s fifth birthday bash over the weekend was pretty weird. In true South African style though, the story has just gotten weirder as the week has gone on.

The incident has morphed into a back and forth between the EFF and right-wingers AfriForum, who once again laid charges against the party, this time for violating the Firearms Control Act.

Now, in a bizarre move, Black First Land First (BLF) has weighed in. Their idiot leader, Andile Mngxitama has set aside his feud with Malema, announcing this morning that the BLF will be laying charges against the “white settler” who handed an assault rifle to the EFF leader.

The “white settler” in question is Adriaan Snyman, Malema’s bodyguard, who was identified early in this saga and doesn’t have anything to do with AfriForum.

Here’s The Citizen:

It’s well known that Mngxitama [below] and Malema are strong political opponents, but the moment Mngxitama saw a white face in that video, his instinct to blame the white man for everything kicked in. Even if Malema had killed someone accidentally, one can only assume that Mngxitama would have found a way to blame it all on the only Afrikaner in the picture…

For the BLF to cook up a complicated conspiracy theory that Snyman was somehow secretly hoping black people would be hit by the bullets from the rifle, and to then compare Snyman [with the red tie below] to the forces who divided and conquered black people during apartheid, betrays just how far beyond the pale (pun not intended) the BLF’s ability to reason even semi-logically has gone.

Of course, Snyman should have to answer for handing a weapon to an unhinged politician in a public place, but that investigation will happen whether or not the BLF goes ahead with their fictional version of events.

Makes popcorn. Clicks refresh. Waits for the next scandal.

[source: thecitizen]