{"id":10241,"date":"2012-04-25T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:30:00","slug":"update-1-s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa&#8217;s ANC party rebel Malema loses appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Appeal appears to have been final option<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema popular among young party members<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC appear to leave open Malema&#8217;s eventual return<\/p>\n<p> (Adds comment from ANC statement)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling<br \/>\nAfrican National Congress (ANC) rejected an appeal from<br \/>\npolitical rebel Julius Malema on Tuesday, cementing his<br \/>\nexpulsion from the party and President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s re-election<br \/>\nprospects for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, a vocal Zuma opponent and leader of the party&#8217;s<br \/>\npowerful youth wing, appears to have exhausted all his options<br \/>\nafter months of appeals since a disciplinary charge last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC&#8217;s disciplinary appeals committee said in a statement<br \/>\nit had dismissed Malema&#8217;s latest petition, confirming an earlier<br \/>\ndecision to expel him from the party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two of Malema&#8217;s allies in the ANC Youth League also lost<br \/>\nsimilar appeals, but were suspended from the party, not<br \/>\nexpelled.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC said in a separate statement it had been a<br \/>\n&#8220;difficult and painful decision&#8221; to subject Malema to<br \/>\ndiscipline.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the seemingly harsh punishment, the party appeared<br \/>\nto leave the open the possibility of his eventual return.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Appeal appears to have been final option * Malema popular among young party members * ANC appear to leave open Malema&#8217;s eventual return (Adds comment from ANC statement) JOHANNESBURG, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress (ANC) rejected an appeal from political rebel Julius Malema on Tuesday, cementing his expulsion from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}