{"id":14975,"date":"2012-09-26T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-s-africa-anc-rebel-malema-charged-with-money-laundering\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T16:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:51","slug":"update-3-s-africa-anc-rebel-malema-charged-with-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-anc-rebel-malema-charged-with-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa ANC rebel Malema charged with money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Defiant, he slams President Zuma as &#8220;illiterate&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rejects charge he &#8220;improperly received&#8221; 4.2 million rand<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Vows to keep up pressure on mining companies<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Case comes amid ANC leadership election battle<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts throughout with Malema comments)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>POLOKWANE, South Africa, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC outcast<br \/>\nJulius Malema was charged with money laundering on Wednesday but<br \/>\nemerged from court unbowed to attack South African President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma as the &#8220;illiterate&#8221; leader of a &#8220;banana republic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Expelled from the African National Congress for<br \/>\nill-discipline, Malema has capitalised on wildcat miners&#8217;<br \/>\nstrikes to emerge as a champion for impoverished blacks whose<br \/>\nlives have changed little since apartheid ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At a ten-minute hearing in Polokwane, capital of Malema&#8217;s<br \/>\nnative Limpopo province, prosecutors accused the former ANC<br \/>\nyouth leader of &#8220;improperly&#8221; receiving 4.2 million rand<br \/>\n($514,000) in a conspiracy involving state tenders.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having ditched his trademark Che Guevara-style black beret<br \/>\nand t-shirt for a grey suit and red tie, Malema emerged to play<br \/>\nthe crowd with an irreverent roasting of Zuma, who faces an<br \/>\ninternal ANC leadership election in December.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Defiant, he slams President Zuma as &#8220;illiterate&#8221; * Rejects charge he &#8220;improperly received&#8221; 4.2 million rand * Vows to keep up pressure on mining companies * Case comes amid ANC leadership election battle (Recasts throughout with Malema comments) By Jon Herskovitz POLOKWANE, South Africa, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; ANC outcast Julius Malema was charged [&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-14975","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\/14975","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=14975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}