Move over Ahmadinejad; there's a new kid on the demagoguery block

Not that new really. Although barely in his thirties, Julius Malema has been a political operative in South Africa for two decades.

He's a rousing speaker, a great populist, and a shoe-in for future president of South Africa.

He's also a loose canon who doesn't hesitate to play the race card, or any other card that might give him an advantage.

He was, not surprisingly, the first politician on the scene of the Lonmin  massacre, where he did his level best to further stir up an already poisonous situation.

His political idol is none other than Robert Mugabe.

With future leaders like this we can be sure that South Africa will be much in the news in the years ahead.