The League has been highly influential in South African politics, acting as a crucible for the careers of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo, among others.
The youth wing also criticised leaks of details relating to a government oversight agency’s investigations of Malema and his business associates.
The investigation found that a company partly-owned by Malema’s family trust Ratanang had won an irregular 52-million-rand public construction tender in Limpopo.
Four men linked with Malema were to appear in court later on Tuesday, local media reported.
Elite police spokesman McIntosh Polela confirmed that an investigation against the men and their three companies was launched in August last year, but would not confirm their identities or links ahead of the court appearance.
He said the charges were of fraud, money-laundering and corruption, in connection with government tenders in Polokwane, the capital of Malema’s home province Limpopo, in the north of the country.
“We are anticipating that they will be throngs and throngs of people coming to the court” – police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi.
Police started preparing for thousands of people expected at Malema’s court appearance.
“We are anticipating that they will be throngs and throngs of people coming to the court, police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said.
The ANC youth wing was not organising the gathering, a national executive committee member said, though he predicted that “various comrades from all over the country are going to attend in support of Julius Malema.”
Using a flare-up of wildcat mining strikes to attack his enemies within the party, Malema called for the mines to be made ungovernable as a spike of protests hit the key industry in recent weeks.
Violence during a strike at a mine in Marikana left 46 dead, 35 of whom were killed by police.
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