Well, neither can most folk imagine Malema in a canoe for days, slogging his way towards a distant finish at Blue Lagoon. But the TimesLive website reports that paddling superstar Oscar Chalupsky has invited Malema to do The Unlimited Dusi in February with him and his brother Herman.
Chalupsky, who has taken a number of celebrities down the river in the past, issued an invitation to Malema on Wednesday.
Baby Jake Matlala, Doctor Khumalo and a number of other celebs have done the journey with Chalupsky, who commented it would be “great to take Julius down the river to mark the 60th anniversary of the event in 2011”.
Good paddler
“We will do it in a K3 (three in the canoe) with my brother, Herman, at the back of the boat. He will be safe with us as my brother is also a very good paddler,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.
Organisers of the event reportedly welcomed Chalupsky’s entry and his guest. “The Dusi Marathon is a well-known story of transformation (and) would be a great opportunity for the ANCYL and Julius Malema,” News 24 reported Ray de Vries, a spokesman for the event organisers and sponsorship specialist, as saying.
– Ridge Correspondent
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