{"id":7093,"date":"2012-01-16T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africas-malema-seen-losing-anc-appeal\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:48:20","slug":"s-africas-malema-seen-losing-anc-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-seen-losing-anc-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema seen losing ANC appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema seen as hurdle to President Zuma&#8217;s re-election<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Analysts see little chance of Malema winning appeal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The appeal that will<br \/>\ndecide the future of South African firebrand Julius Malema<br \/>\nstarts next week, with analysts saying it will likely uphold a<br \/>\nfive-year suspension from the ruling party that would send the<br \/>\nyouth leader into the political wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, who rose to prominence with calls to nationalise<br \/>\nmines and seize white-owned farm land, is fighting for his<br \/>\npolitical life after an African National Congress (ANC)<br \/>\ndisciplinary committee in November found him guilty of bringing<br \/>\nthe party into disrepute and expelled him for five years.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The appeal will begin on Jan. 23, a senior ANC official said<br \/>\non Monday. Malema, 30, is also facing a criminal probe that is<br \/>\nlooking into his finances. He has been able to stay in the party<br \/>\npending the appeal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the panel made up of senior ANC officials upholds the<br \/>\nprevious sentence, Malema, 30, would be stripped of his position<br \/>\nas president of the ANC Youth League and ostracised by the party<br \/>\nthe dominates politics in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect the appeal panel to uphold the previous<br \/>\ndecision and Malema has said he sees himself as &#8220;finished<br \/>\npolitically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The panel&#8217;s decision is expected in the next few weeks.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema seen as hurdle to President Zuma&#8217;s re-election * Analysts see little chance of Malema winning appeal By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The appeal that will decide the future of South African firebrand Julius Malema starts next week, with analysts saying it will likely uphold a five-year suspension from the ruling [&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-7093","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\/7093","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=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}