{"id":7683,"date":"2012-02-06T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/anc-delays-final-sentencing-for-suspended-malema\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:44:51","slug":"anc-delays-final-sentencing-for-suspended-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/anc-delays-final-sentencing-for-suspended-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC delays final sentencing for suspended Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling<br \/>\nANC has delayed final sentencing for suspended Youth League<br \/>\nleader Julius Malema, who lost an appeal this weekend against<br \/>\ncharges of bringing the party into disrepute, Secretary-General<br \/>\nGwede Mantashe said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid confusion about the precise implications of Malema&#8217;s<br \/>\nfailed appeal on Saturday, Mantashe said the African National<br \/>\nCongress had decided to let the 30-year-old argue for a more<br \/>\nlenient sentence than his initial 5-year party suspension.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The final outcome of Malema&#8217;s &#8220;mitigation hearing&#8221; is due<br \/>\nwithin 14 days of Saturday&#8217;s appeal hearing, Mantashe told a<br \/>\nnews conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that we are delaying kicking in (the suspension)<br \/>\nis more a political than a legal consideration,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision by the ANC&#8217;s appeals body to uphold the guilty<br \/>\nverdict against Malema deals a major blow to his campaign to<br \/>\nnationalise the mines in the world&#8217;s biggest platinum producer<br \/>\nand seize white-owned farmland.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It also changes the political landscape by sidelining one of<br \/>\nthe most vocal foes of President Jacob Zuma, who faces an<br \/>\ninternal party election in December that will decide whether he<br \/>\nwins a second term in charge of Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Writing by Ed Cropley)<\/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 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC has delayed final sentencing for suspended Youth League leader Julius Malema, who lost an appeal this weekend against charges of bringing the party into disrepute, Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. Amid confusion about the precise implications of Malema&#8217;s failed appeal on Saturday, Mantashe said the [&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-7683","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\/7683","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=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}