{"id":6300,"date":"2011-12-21T00:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/s-africas-malema-wins-anc-post-despite-suspension\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T00:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:44","slug":"s-africas-malema-wins-anc-post-despite-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-wins-anc-post-despite-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema wins ANC post despite suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema may try to use local support to rattle Zuma<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Showdown could come at ANC elections next year<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\nfirebrand Julius Malema was elected to a senior African National<br \/>\nCongress post in his home province on Tuesday, in a boost to his<br \/>\ntroubled career and a sign of local support within the ruling<br \/>\nparty.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An ANC disciplinary panel in November found Malema guilty of<br \/>\nbringing the 99-year-old liberation movement into disrepute, and<br \/>\nexpelled him for five years. The 30-year-old has appealed the<br \/>\nsuspension and is allowed to stay in the party pending a<br \/>\ndecision.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If he loses the appeal, the ANC election to the party&#8217;s<br \/>\nexecutive committee for the Limpopo province would be merely<br \/>\nsymbolic. He faces being stripped of the post and also of his<br \/>\nleadership of the ANC&#8217;s Youth League.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the vote result does send a message to his adversary,<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma, that Malema may try to rally support from<br \/>\nhis home base to shake up a major ANC meeting next year when the<br \/>\nparty elects its leader, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a sign that Mr. Malema and his allies are not going<br \/>\nto roll over and accept the authority of Luthuli House (the<br \/>\nANC&#8217;s headquarters)&#8230; without a fight,&#8221; Business Day newspaper<br \/>\nsaid in an editorial.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, a power broker who helped Zuma rise to power at the<br \/>\nANC&#8217;s last electoral meeting in 2007, has increasingly crossed<br \/>\nswords with the president, mocking him in public at the weekend.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema may try to use local support to rattle Zuma * Showdown could come at ANC elections next year By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South African firebrand Julius Malema was elected to a senior African National Congress post in his home province on Tuesday, in a boost to his troubled career [&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-6300","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\/6300","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=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}