{"id":8450,"date":"2012-03-01T02:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/south-africas-anc-expels-malema-may-appeal-ruling\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T02:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:45:04","slug":"south-africas-anc-expels-malema-may-appeal-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africas-anc-expels-malema-may-appeal-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s ANC expels Malema, may appeal ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema has 14 days to appeal ANC expulsion ruling<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* May stay in post until all appeals are exhausted<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tiisetso Motsoeneng<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling<br \/>\nANC has expelled party rebel Julius Malema for bringing the<br \/>\nmovement into disrepute, potentially sending the youth leader<br \/>\nknown for his calls to nationalise mines in the resource-rich<br \/>\ncountry into the political wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema has 14 days to appeal the expulsion ruling, the<br \/>\nAfrican National Congress (ANC) said in a statement. If he does<br \/>\nappeal he could stay in his position as leader of the ANC&#8217;s<br \/>\nyouth wing until the appeals process is exhausted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Comrade Malema is a repeat offender &#8230; he has shown no<br \/>\nremorse; is not prepared to be disciplined by the ANC,&#8221; the ANC<br \/>\nsaid in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema was found guilty in November by a party disciplinary<br \/>\ncouncil of violating ANC rules by causing rifts in the group and<br \/>\nundermining its credibility by calling for the overthrow of the<br \/>\ndemocratic government of neighbouring Botswana.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was suspended for five years but was allowed to keep his<br \/>\nparty posts pending an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the ANC rejected his appeal on Wednesday and<br \/>\nincreased his sentence on the grounds he was unrepentant.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema has 14 days to appeal ANC expulsion ruling * May stay in post until all appeals are exhausted By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG, Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC has expelled party rebel Julius Malema for bringing the movement into disrepute, potentially sending the youth leader known for his calls to nationalise [&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-8450","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\/8450","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=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}