If you haven’t heard about what award Julius Malema was nominated for, I am yet to brighten your day! The beloved president of the African National Congress Youth League was nominated for the “Drama Queen” award at the Feather Awards Ceremony; an event put together by the gay society of South Africa whose focus is to honour any inspirational icon. Yes, inspirational...
http://gayscene.co.za/node/2396 This exciting news hit the world on the 8th October 2009, but sadly Malema did not rejoice in his nomination. Similarly like the Caster Semenya gender saga, Malema did not in fact know what a drama queen was and thus felt no burning desire to comment on something that he didn’t understand. Surprised? Well to be fair he is in politics, not drama... After hearing this debilitating news, the Feather Awards organising committee have indeed revoked the nomination sincerely apologising for any unhappiness caused to old Julius and his team. http://www.artzone.co.za/template_level2.asp?parentseq=7712
http://gayscene.co.za/node/2396 This exciting news hit the world on the 8th October 2009, but sadly Malema did not rejoice in his nomination. Similarly like the Caster Semenya gender saga, Malema did not in fact know what a drama queen was and thus felt no burning desire to comment on something that he didn’t understand. Surprised? Well to be fair he is in politics, not drama... After hearing this debilitating news, the Feather Awards organising committee have indeed revoked the nomination sincerely apologising for any unhappiness caused to old Julius and his team. http://www.artzone.co.za/template_level2.asp?parentseq=7712
What was intended to be light-hearted has in fact backfired as the committee said that evidently “he’s not having much fun”. I must say that I find this all quite amusing that a) they consider Malema inspirational and b) its quite wonderful really, that people think of Malema as a drama queen. I can’t help but chuckle at the complete silliness of this entire event but in all honesty I am disappointed that they retracted the nomination. It would have been nice to have a political drama queen in the house. Malema c’mon girlfriend!
For more Reports on this bizarre topic
http://thevillageidiot.co.za/2009/10/julius-malema-a-gay-icon/
http://www.hayibo.com/articles/view/1146