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At just 26 years of age, he helped oust one South African president and elevate another. Some four years later, he's threatening to do it again. But Julius Malema, the fiery and powerful leader of the African National Congress party's youth league, may have gone too far when he said he also would work to overthrow the president of neighboring Botswana. Malema is now appearing before an ongoing party disciplinary committee on charges of violating the party constitution, bringing the ANC into disrepute and sowing division in its ranks. The young man some find charming and others boorish once told a local newspaper that his youth should allow him more latitude. In his words: "I must put more fire on what I say so that people can feel the heat." It was the same motivation cited by another young firebrand of the ANC more than 60 years ago. Nelson Mandela said he helped found the youth league in 1944 "as a way of lighting a fire" under a conservative leadershi...