{"id":21217,"date":"2013-07-18T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/dear-athol-stanford-and-buyelekhaya\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:56:22","slug":"dear-athol-stanford-and-buyelekhaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/dear-athol-stanford-and-buyelekhaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Athol, Stanford and Buyelekhaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I find myself curiously disturbed at your latest actions, Athol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The chattering classes remain strangely silent on two of your recent \u2018triumphs\u2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The suspension of Stanford Slabbert as a result of his forwarding of a supposedly \u2018racist e-mail\u2019 and<\/li>\n<li>Your triumphant welcoming to the DA of a convicted criminal, AbaThembu king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo <strong>*<\/strong>, who faces the prospect of 15 years in jail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How is it that a man NOT CONVICTED of any crime can be suspended and then a man CONVICTED of a crime be welcomed to the DA.<\/p>\n<p>Are we trying to make sure that a party known for strict moral and ethical codes now seriously becomes known as the \u2018Desperate Alternative\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for you Athol, but you and your cronies are seriously looking like some other party and NOT a party of choice. Maybe a vote for the DA will be a vote for \u2018business as usual\u2019?<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> Dalindyebo \u2013 our self confessed dagga smoking king (who says he will give up as soon as Zuma stops being corrupt) is appealing a 15-year sentence after the Eastern Cape High Court in Mthatha convicted him of 10 crimes, including arson, culpable homicide, the kidnapping of a woman and her six children, defeating the course of justice and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself curiously disturbed at your latest actions, Athol. The chattering classes remain strangely silent on two of your recent \u2018triumphs\u2019: The suspension of Stanford Slabbert as a result of his forwarding of a supposedly \u2018racist e-mail\u2019 and Your triumphant welcoming to the DA of a convicted criminal, AbaThembu king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo *, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/21217","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}