{"id":53214,"date":"2015-08-03T06:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=53214"},"modified":"2015-08-03T06:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T04:51:53","slug":"malemas-back-in-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/malemas-back-in-court-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Malema&#8217;s back in court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polokwane &#8211; The fraud trial of Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and his co-accused is expected to start in the High Court in Polokwane on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was postponed last September as some counsel were not available.<\/p>\n<p>Malema and his co-accused, On-Point Engineering directors Lesiba Gwangwa and Kagisho Dichabe, face charges of racketeering, fraud, corruption, and money-laundering.<\/p>\n<p>According to court papers, Malema allegedly had business ties with Gwangwa. Malema&#8217;s Ratanang Family Trust was an indirect shareholder in On-Point Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The State alleges that Malema and his co-accused misrepresented themselves to the Limpopo roads and transport department, leading to a R52 million contract being awarded to On-Point Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>It was alleged that Malema used some of the money to buy a farm and a Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n<p>Malema is out on R10 000 bail, the others on bail of R40 000 each.<\/p>\n<p>EFF members held a night vigil at the Jack Botes Hall in Polokwane on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of Malema&#8217;s appearance, Limpopo police spokesperson Colonel Ronel Otto said there would be tight security around the court. A number of streets around the court were closed from Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Genevieve Quintal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Malemas-fraud-trial-expected-to-start-20150803\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polokwane &#8211; The fraud trial of Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and his co-accused is expected to start in the High Court in Polokwane on Monday. The trial was postponed last September as some counsel were not available. Malema and his co-accused, On-Point Engineering directors Lesiba Gwangwa and Kagisho Dichabe, face charges of racketeering, [&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":[76,1366],"class_list":{"0":"post-53214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-fraud","8":"tag-julius-malema","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\/53214","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=53214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53215,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions\/53215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}