MALEMA WELCOMES A NEW BEDFELLOW

Clinton supporters are in a state of shock, trounced by a billionaire who understood the anger of disaffected voters.  His anti-establishment populist rhetoric resonated with white America across the Rust-Belt and rural communities.  He played to their fears about jobs moving abroad and immigrants, especially from the Middle East moving in.  Trump was their savior, spoke their language, willing to insult anyone in his run for president.

Trump joins the ranks of a growing number of populist leaders capable of mobilising the people claiming to speak on their behalf.  They draw their support by appealing to the less educated and the economically marginalised.

Included in the ranks of populists leaders is Julius Malema.  He too has tapped into the deepening  inequality and social exclusion of the dispossessed.  In doing so, he has benefited from the ANC government's failure to improving standards of the poor. The arrogant ruling elite has unwittingly prepared the way for Malema's populist movement. .

Trump's populist victory will now further embolden Malema to achieve his extremist agenda.