VOA标准英语2011--ANC Youth League Supporters Protest Viol

ANC Youth League Supporters Protest Violently in Johannesburg

Supporters of Julius Malema, the leader of the African National Congress Youth League, protested violently in downtown Johannesburg Tuesday, damaging property, attacking police and journalists, and injuring at least one person. The protests began as an ANC disciplinary process involving Malema got underway.
Violence erupted when police attempted to keep protesters behind a barrier a street block away from the ANC headquarters, known as Luthuli House. Protesters, some of them school children in uniform, threw stones, bricks and bottles and breached¹ the police barrier. Some burned ANC T-shirts and posters of President Jacob Zuma.
ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe told the eNews Channel that those responsible were enemies of the party. “The burning of the ANC flag and the question of burning the face [poster] of the president of the ANC [Jacob Zuma], obviously when you do that you are saying to the world, 'I am not a member of the ANC, I’m the enemy of the ANC,'” he said.
Mantashe also made it plain that the youth league would have to accept responsibility for the actions of the protesters. “But if you invited your friends to be outside Luthuli House and hooligans and criminals join, you take responsibility of all [of] that crowd," he explained. "Because that crowd is your crowd, voetstoots [just as it is].”
Protesters were determined² to go into Luthuli House where the second disciplinary hearing in less than a year against Malema was underway. The charges against Malema include bringing the ANC into disrepute by calling for a regime change in neighboring Botswana.
Malema is known for his fiery³ and often controversial rhetoric⁴ for which he, the youth league, and the ANC often have to apologize. He has forced the ANC to put nationalization of land and mines back onto the ANC policy discussions agenda - something the party backed away from in the early 1990’s.
The once supportive relationship between Malema and Zuma has deteriorated⁵ over the past two years, as Malema has ever more frequently challenged the president and the ANC over their policies.
During an afternoon recess⁶ Tuesday, Malema came out to address the protesters, calling on them to respect the ANC and its processes and focus on what he called the revolution on the enemy. When he said they know who the enemy is, they chanted "Zuma, Zuma, Zuma."
The outcome of the disciplinary action is unlikely to be known before next week.

1 breached   

攻破( breach的现在分词 )； 破坏，违反

参考例句：

• These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
• Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。

2 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

3 fiery   

adj.燃烧着的，火红的；暴躁的；激烈的

参考例句：

• She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
• His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。

4 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

5 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

6 recess   

n.短期休息，壁凹（墙上装架子，柜子等凹处）

参考例句：

• The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
• Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。