{"id":14948,"date":"2012-09-26T04:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-s-africas-malema-to-face-corruption-hearing\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T04:54:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:54:52","slug":"update-1-s-africas-malema-to-face-corruption-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africas-malema-to-face-corruption-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa&#8217;s Malema to face corruption hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema to face graft charges<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Supporters say case is politically motivated<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Supporters plan show of force at court<\/p>\n<p> (Changes dateline, adds vigil by Malema supporters)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>POLOKWANE, South Africa, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC rebel<br \/>\nJulius Malema, South African President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most<br \/>\nprominent critic and an advocate of mining nationalisation,<br \/>\nappears in court on Wednesday on corruption charges that his<br \/>\nsupporters say are politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police said they would close roads for the hearing on<br \/>\nWednesday around the courthouse in Polokwane, the provincial<br \/>\ncapital of Malema&#8217;s native Limpopo, 350 km (220 miles) north of<br \/>\nJohannesburg, for one of the biggest trials since the end of<br \/>\napartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No lawlessness will be tolerated and those who break the<br \/>\nlaw will be arrested immediately,&#8221; police said in a statement<br \/>\nissued before Malema&#8217;s supporters began a night vigil on<br \/>\nTuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant was issued last week for the former ANC<br \/>\nYouth League leader, with local media saying he was facing<br \/>\ncharges of fraud, corruption and money laundering in the<br \/>\nawarding of government contracts in Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hearing on Wednesday is expected to last only a few<br \/>\nminutes with prosecutors reading out the charges against him.<br \/>\nThe court is then likely to release him on bail.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema to face graft charges * Supporters say case is politically motivated * Supporters plan show of force at court (Changes dateline, adds vigil by Malema supporters) By Jon Herskovitz POLOKWANE, South Africa, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC rebel Julius Malema, South African President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s most prominent critic and an advocate of mining [&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-14948","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\/14948","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=14948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}