{"id":10242,"date":"2012-04-25T04:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T04:30:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:30:01","slug":"s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-anc-party-rebel-malema-loses-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"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><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 24<\/span> (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 committee said in a statement it had<br \/>\ndismissed Malema&#8217;s appeal, confirming its earlier decision to<br \/>\nexpel him from the party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, one of the best orators in the ANC, has won wide<br \/>\npopularity among poor South African youth with his calls for<br \/>\nnationalisation of mines and seizure of white-owned land.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was suspended from the ANC last year for sowing division<br \/>\nin the party, but was allowed to stay in his post pending the<br \/>\noutcome of his appeals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following the charges, Malema ratcheted up his criticism of<br \/>\nZuma and even mocked him at public rallies. The ANC retaliated<br \/>\nby turning its original sentence of a five-year suspension into<br \/>\nexpulsion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although not an elected official, Malema was seen as<br \/>\nsomething of a king-maker within the party given his large<br \/>\nsupport base among young people, as well as the youth league&#8217;s<br \/>\nreputation as a training ground for future leaders.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by David Dolan; Editing by Michael Roddy)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Appeal appears to have been final option * Malema popular among young party members 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 the party and President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s re-election prospects for 2014. 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