{"id":14862,"date":"2012-09-22T04:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-south-africa-issues-arrest-warrant-for-malema\/"},"modified":"2012-09-22T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:43:30","slug":"update-3-south-africa-issues-arrest-warrant-for-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-south-africa-issues-arrest-warrant-for-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-South Africa issues arrest warrant for Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Warrant linked to corruption probe by police<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Golds Fields strike to end<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AngloGold latest victim of wildcat strikes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Pascal Fletcher<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; South African authorities<br \/>\nhave issued an arrest warrant for ANC renegade Julius Malema,<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most vocal critic and a key backer of<br \/>\nwildcat miner strikes that spread on Friday to bullion producer<br \/>\nAnglogold Ashanti.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Youth League leader, who was expelled from the<br \/>\nruling African National Congress in April for indiscipline, was<br \/>\nliaising with police about his appearance in court next week,<br \/>\nhis lawyer, Nicqui Galaktiou, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are busy arranging Mr. Malema&#8217;s appearance next week,&#8221;<br \/>\nshe said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a confirmed date yet. We have not seen<br \/>\nthe warrant of arrest. We don&#8217;t know what the charges are. He<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t be jailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She added that the charges stemmed from an investigation by<br \/>\nthe police&#8217;s elite Hawks detective division, which has been<br \/>\nprobing 31-year-old Malema for alleged corruption relating to<br \/>\nthe award of government contracts in his native Limpopo<br \/>\nprovince.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s City Press newspaper said Malema, who has<br \/>\naddressed crowds of strikers and called for nationwide<br \/>\nindustrial action, was facing charges of fraud, money laundering<br \/>\nand corruption.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Warrant linked to corruption probe by police * Golds Fields strike to end * AngloGold latest victim of wildcat strikes By Pascal Fletcher JOHANNESBURG, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; South African authorities have issued an arrest warrant for ANC renegade Julius Malema, President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most vocal critic and a key backer of wildcat miner [&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-14862","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\/14862","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=14862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}