{"id":7655,"date":"2012-02-05T01:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-malema-loses-appeal-suspended-from-anc\/"},"modified":"2012-02-05T01:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:40:52","slug":"s-africas-malema-loses-appeal-suspended-from-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-loses-appeal-suspended-from-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema loses appeal, suspended from ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; A ruling South African<br \/>\nANC appeals panel on Saturday upheld a decision to expel its<br \/>\nfirebrand youth leader Julius Malema for bringing the movement<br \/>\ninto disrepute, sending into the political wilderness one of the<br \/>\nleading voices for nationalising mines.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision will likely derail the career of Malema, one of<br \/>\nthe country&#8217;s best known politicians whose calls for radical<br \/>\ntransformation of Africa&#8217;s largest economy unnerved investors<br \/>\nand drew harsh criticism from some African National Congress<br \/>\nleaders.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The appeals panel upheld his conviction but turned back for<br \/>\nfurther deliberation a decision on how long the suspension will<br \/>\nbe. Malema cannot escape suspension under ANC rules.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema was found guilty in November by a separate<br \/>\ndisciplinary committee and sentenced to a five-year suspension.<br \/>\nThat committee will hear in 14 days testimony for mitigation of<br \/>\nits sentence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; A ruling South African ANC appeals panel on Saturday upheld a decision to expel its firebrand youth leader Julius Malema for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the political wilderness one of the leading voices for nationalising mines. The decision will likely derail the career of Malema, one of [&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-7655","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\/7655","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=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}