Regardless of the serious racial tensions that the incidents highlight, both also make for extremely good video-sharing across the net, and as Zoopy CEO Jason Elk points out, the two videos were "almost too good to be true" in terms of viral-sharing suitability.
For those of you living under a rock for the past 24 hours, AWB secretary general André Visagie caused quite a ruckus during the eNews programme Africa 360 on Wednesday when he stormed out and verbally-threatened the other guest on the show, political commentator Lebogang Pheko.
A couple of hours later at Luthuli House in downtown Johannesburg, ANCYL president Julius Malema called BBC journalist Jonah Fisher a "bastard" and a "bloody agent", before ordering the journalist to leave the building during an ANCYL press conference.
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