{"id":7288,"date":"2012-01-22T20:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/police-deployed-as-s-africa-cleans-up-malema-base\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T18:58:56","slug":"police-deployed-as-s-africa-cleans-up-malema-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/police-deployed-as-s-africa-cleans-up-malema-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Police deployed as S.Africa cleans up Malema base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema&#8217;s home province in dire financial straits<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Treasury intervention team given armed escort<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Political stakes high in Malema appeal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* He has close connections but no direct Limpopo role<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Armed police guards<br \/>\nare protecting a South African treasury team sent to fix the<br \/>\nfinances of a bankrupt province that is a base for firebrand ANC<br \/>\nyouth leader Julius Malema, a sign of political tensions ahead<br \/>\nof an appeal that will decide his fate.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, the leader of the ruling African National Congress&#8217;<br \/>\nYouth League, is fighting for his political life with an appeal<br \/>\nthat starts on Monday against his 5-year suspension handed down<br \/>\nin November by the party for bringing it into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the 30-year-old party rebel succeeds in his appeal and<br \/>\nremains in the movement, he could be an obstacle to the<br \/>\nre-election of President Jacob Zuma as ANC leader at the end of<br \/>\nthis year. Malema has been a fierce, uninhibited critic of Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The northern province of Limpopo which is Malema&#8217;s powerbase<br \/>\nis undergoing a national treasury intervention to clean up its<br \/>\ndire financial state, an action which has increased resentment<br \/>\namong Malema allies already angry over his suspension.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema&#8217;s home province in dire financial straits * Treasury intervention team given armed escort * Political stakes high in Malema appeal * He has close connections but no direct Limpopo role By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Armed police guards are protecting a South African treasury team sent to fix the finances [&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-7288","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\/7288","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=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}