PRETORIA. The ANC Youth League has dismissed evidence of Julius Malema's dismal academic career, saying that the ANCYL is "about the collective and not the individual". However education officials have confirmed that Malema achieved an H for standard grade Mathematics in Matric, suggesting that he probably can't tell the difference between concepts of "one" and "many".
A digital reproduction of Malema's school report card has been circulating South Africa for some time, revealing a startling array of failing marks, including a G in standard grade woodworking.
However the ANCYL has rejected the report, declaring that Malema's mark for Woodwork was a revolutionary rejection of racism.
In a statement released this morning the League said that one of the founding tenets of racism was that blacks were consigned to being "hewers of wood and carriers of water".
"Woodworking is all about hewing wood and entrenching the hegemony of racism," read the statement. "Comrade Malema was subverting this by failing so selflessly."
It explained that Malema had been planning to construct a baroque cuckoo-clock for his final Grade 12 project, but chose instead to "reject bourgeois values and instead make a dovetail joint, representing the will of the masses".
"However this plan was betrayed by counterrevolutionary cold-glue which got all over everything, and a racist chisel which split the joint a week before deadline.
"He therefore chose to demonstrate his love for the simple things in life by handing in a sanded plank. This humble gesture of perseverance was rejected by the Apartheid education system, and he was given an H."
Asked how the Apartheid education system was still in control in 2002, the Youth League said that "racism knows no limits" and could "transcend time and space, like a big racist thing in space and time, transcending them, also".
Meanwhile political analysts say they are alarmed by Malema's results in Mathematics.
According to one, who wished to remain anonymous because he wished to remain alive, getting an H on the standard grade meant that Malema was "counting using his fingers and toes, and running into trouble after one hand".
However most agree that a profoundly limited intellect will not be a hindrance to Malema's political career, as he would only be required to write his own name, usually on blank checks, spell words like "demand", "reject", "kill" and "enemies", and throw ANC-themes T-shirts into crowds.
"Plus," added the unnamed analyst, "he's got nine more years of school than Jacob Zuma.
"Eleven, if you count the years he repeated."
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