African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema says he will never be a cabinet minister because he would have to explain why he drives a luxury car.

He says ministers should be allowed to drive expensive cars at taxpayers' expense because the officials do not own the vehicles themselves.

Malema says people who drive such vehicles are not necessarily corrupt.

"What is corruption? Driving a Mercedes Benz? Driving a Mercedes Benz cannot be corruption. If that is how you define corruption then you are jealous," said Malema while delivering the annual Peter Mokaba Lecture in Vereeniging on Thursday.

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