A young boy sits on a dusty floor on a farm in Bushbuckridge, a remote rural area near the Kruger National Park. Obedient, he and his siblings fall into a hushed silence as his father, a farmworker, turns on the old Omega radio player.
Lamola's mother and father were farmworkers and met on a farm near Komatipoort. The first few years of his education were spent at a small farm school but he then moved to high school in Bushbuckridge, an area for which he has a deep affection. Lamola, who has casually unfolded his long limbs on the couch next to me looks nothing like the traditional, stuffy, officiously styled Cabinet minister. He's athletic, dressed in designer sneakers, faded jeans and a sporty jacket. He has just one bodyguard-type trailing him and there's no flashy blue light cavalcade to speak of.
"I have got a lived experience of the Constitution. I have practised it and I have lived it earlier in my life as an activist in the ANC and in actual practice. The Constitution is new, all of us are still grappling with the interpretation of the Constitution. I am part of one of the first generations that was taught the Constitution in the current dispensation so I think it makes me the perfect candidate. I can qualify also to be a judge of any High Court in this country.
ANC Youth League leaders defend their president Julius Malema during a news conference at Luthuli House on July 25, 2011 in Johannesburg. Present are treasurer general Pule Mabe, secretary general Sindiso Magaqa and deputy president Ronald Lamola.
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