{"id":7877,"date":"2012-02-11T01:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-malema-says-ready-for-ouster-and-jail\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T01:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:56:45","slug":"s-africas-malema-says-ready-for-ouster-and-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-says-ready-for-ouster-and-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema says ready for ouster and jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema says he was unfairly prosecuted<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Delivers veiled jabs at Zuma<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Youth League mocks Zuma with &#8220;Shoot the Shower&#8221; song<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA, Feb 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Julius Malema gave what<br \/>\nmay be his final address as leader of the ANC Youth League on<br \/>\nFriday, saying South Africa&#8217;s ruling party has persecuted him<br \/>\nand that he will pursue his struggle for nationalising mines<br \/>\neven if he is ousted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema faces a five-year expulsion from the African National<br \/>\nCongress for violating its rules and dividing the party that has<br \/>\nruled since a white-minority apartheid government ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now preparing our lives outside the ANC and possibly<br \/>\nin prison,&#8221; Malema told a meeting of senior Youth League<br \/>\nmembers, who sang his praises and mocked President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire process of the disciplinary proceedings of the<br \/>\nANC was politically motivated and meant to resolve political<br \/>\nstruggles and battles within the ANC,&#8221; said Malema dressed in a<br \/>\nT-shirt and what members said was a &#8220;revolutionary beret&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema will be barred from ANC posts and party functions. He<br \/>\nhas been allowed to stay in his post until a party panel<br \/>\nannounces, probably this month, the length of 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 says he was unfairly prosecuted * Delivers veiled jabs at Zuma * Youth League mocks Zuma with &#8220;Shoot the Shower&#8221; song By Jon Herskovitz PRETORIA, Feb 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Julius Malema gave what may be his final address as leader of the ANC Youth League on Friday, saying South Africa&#8217;s ruling party has [&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-7877","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\/7877","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=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}