Malema joins in to make fun of ‘Mini-Madiba’ Maimane

A little dig at Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane was sent late on Sunday by EFF leader Julius Malema.

He was responding to a brutal Hogarth article in the Sunday Times that criticised Maimane for allegedly not having his own identity. The anonymous Hogarth claimed Maimane had lived his “entire political life trying to be someone other than himself”.

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Hogarth was unimpressed at Maimane’s apparent audacity in “blowing his own horn” on Freedom Day by comparing himself to global icon Nelson Mandela, which Hogarth mocked as him trying to be “Mini-Madiba”, after he was initially called “Mini-Obama” when he came on the political scene.

Ouch. pic.twitter.com/KvbbRHAgA0

— Eusebius McKaiser (@Eusebius) April 29, 2018

Malema didn’t get too directly involved in the ensuing response from Twitter, despite many pointing out that, in their opinion, Maimane was starting to look and sound a lot like Malema in his speeches.

Why is he talking like @Julius_S_Malema? Even that hand is waved like Juju does 😂 Whatever happened to Obama impersonation? Come on @MmusiMaimane! The least you can do is be yourself, simple as that.

— STOP THE WARS!🇨🇩 🇵🇸🇸🇸 (@MissQweli) April 29, 2018

However, the EFF leader did take the opportunity to tag Maimane into a response to a Richard Branson tweet about his top 10 favourite “on discovering original”.

My top 10 quotes on discovering original https://t.co/eYlgHhwXWj pic.twitter.com/ed9nnqyI5v

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) April 29, 2018

Ironically, one of the quotes that Branson selects and attributes incorrectly to Nelson Mandela was actually originally said by Marianne Williamson and paraphrased by Mandela: “There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living.”

However, it’s the John Mason quote that Malema was tagging Maimane into: “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”

@MmusiMaimane

— Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) April 29, 2018

Many noticed the jibe and reacted. Maimane, however, did not respond.

No man @Julius_S_Malema don’t do this to Mmusi…I mean, Obama…sorry, I mean Mini-Mandela…or is it Trump or maybe Kanye…? Oh, whatever he’s calling himself at the moment

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— Rami Chuene (@ramichuene) April 29, 2018

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— The Mighty DarkSeid (@iiitsAndy) April 29, 2018

😂😂😂 The funniest is when he imitates the CIC, even does the hand gestures. So funny yet so sad.

— Nanamhla (@NanamhlaM) April 29, 2018

https://twitter.com/BrylanSean/status/990682880031502336

Ah! pic.twitter.com/U4uz1YqktS

— 👑KING👑 (@djkingstuz) April 29, 2018

Always playing the man, never the ball.

Anyhoo … Carry on …

— Mpumi Tweets (@Khumalo05Mpumi) April 30, 2018

#MamparaMmusi has always played a role… pic.twitter.com/AQLINTCXrA

— Harold Ferwood (@Harold_Ferwood) April 29, 2018

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