{"id":14629,"date":"2012-09-14T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-juju-jinxes-zuma-over-mines-unrest\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T14:28:07","slug":"s-africas-juju-jinxes-zuma-over-mines-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-juju-jinxes-zuma-over-mines-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Africa&#8217;s &quot;Juju&quot; jinxes Zuma over mines unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rebel Malema uses labour strife to feed political comeback<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* His canny populism shows up slow-footed Zuma leadership<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rattled ANC establishment flays him as &#8220;opportunist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema anti-Zuma drive taps into ANC leadership battle<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ANC rebel<br \/>\nJulius Malema has charged back from the political wilderness,<br \/>\nseizing on a mines labour conflict to bait and harry President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma before an end-year leadership conference that will<br \/>\ntest stability in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Zuma has dithered over the industrial unrest that led<br \/>\nto the Aug. 16 police killing of 34 striking miners, Malema is<br \/>\nfeeding his comeback with the discontent among South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\npoor and unemployed that poses the biggest threat to the ANC&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoverning alliance since apartheid ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wearing his trademark beret, the former ANC Youth League<br \/>\nleader cast out by the ruling party for indiscipline this year<br \/>\nhas driven his upscale SUV into the heart of the dusty,<br \/>\nscrub-covered platinum mining belt. Here, he heard the<br \/>\ngrievances of angry strikers carrying spears, machetes and<br \/>\nclubs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are our leaders? Our leaders have sold out South<br \/>\nAfrica. Our leaders are sleeping with capitalists. Our leaders<br \/>\nare enjoying dinners with capital. They have forgotten about<br \/>\nus,&#8221; the 31-year-old, popularly known as &#8220;Juju&#8221;, told a raucous<br \/>\ncrowd of protesting miners this week.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Rebel Malema uses labour strife to feed political comeback * His canny populism shows up slow-footed Zuma leadership * Rattled ANC establishment flays him as &#8220;opportunist&#8221; * Malema anti-Zuma drive taps into ANC leadership battle By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ANC rebel Julius Malema has charged back from the [&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-14629","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\/14629","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=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}