Malema, the BBC and AWB: the perfect video-share storm

From India to London, Seattle and New York, South Africa was making headlines for all the wrong reasons on Thursday thanks to the studio scuffle by AWB secretary general André Visagie and press conference outburst by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on live, national TV. [video]

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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