{"id":14893,"date":"2012-09-23T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-malema-owes-tax-authorities-2-mln\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T14:46:32","slug":"s-africas-malema-owes-tax-authorities-2-mln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-owes-tax-authorities-2-mln\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema owes tax authorities $2 mln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Tax bill adds to Malema legal woes<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To appear in court on Wednesday in corruption case<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Vocal supporter of wildcat miners&#8217; strikes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 23 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC renegade Julius<br \/>\nMalema, President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most vocal critic, has been given<br \/>\na $2 million tax bill, authorities said on Sunday, days after a<br \/>\nwarrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, expelled from the ruling African National Congress<br \/>\nin April for indiscipline, has come under pressure since<br \/>\nsupporting wildcat strikes sweeping the economically vital<br \/>\nmining industry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) won judgement last<br \/>\nweek to deliver the populist politician with a hefty tax bill,<br \/>\nSARS spokeswoman Marika Muller said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that there was a judgement of 16 million rand<br \/>\n($1.94 million) against Julius Malema,&#8221; Muller said, confirming<br \/>\nreports in South African newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former ANC Youth League leader is expected to appear in<br \/>\ncourt on Wednesday to face corruption charges related to the<br \/>\naward of government tenders in the 31-year-old&#8217;s native Limpopo<br \/>\nprovince.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema has unnerved investors by calling for the<br \/>\nnationalisation of mines in the world&#8217;s top platinum producer.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Tax bill adds to Malema legal woes * To appear in court on Wednesday in corruption case * Vocal supporter of wildcat miners&#8217; strikes JOHANNESBURG, Sept 23 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC renegade Julius Malema, President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most vocal critic, has been given a $2 million tax bill, authorities said on Sunday, days after a [&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-14893","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\/14893","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=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}