{"id":8562,"date":"2012-03-04T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/south-africas-malema-asks-to-stay-in-anc\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:52:17","slug":"south-africas-malema-asks-to-stay-in-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africas-malema-asks-to-stay-in-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Malema asks to stay in ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema appeals to ANC to stay as party member<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Will not take the ruling party to court over expulsion<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC&#8217;s Youth League meeting on Monday to discuss strategy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Julius Malema has<br \/>\nasked to stay on as a member of the ruling African National<br \/>\nCongress despite being expelled from the party earlier this<br \/>\nweek, a South African newspaper reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a gathering of the ANC&#8217;s women&#8217;s wing on his<br \/>\n31st birthday on Saturday, Malema said he would not challenge<br \/>\nthe ANC in court over his expulsion for bringing the party into<br \/>\ndisrepute, even though he believed he had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead, he has asked the ANC&#8217;s disciplinary council to<br \/>\nallow him keep his party membership even if stripped of the<br \/>\npresidency of its Youth League.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we made a mistake, discipline us. Don&#8217;t throw us in the<br \/>\ndustbin,&#8221; the South Africa&#8217;s Sunday Times quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Expelled from the party on Wednesday, Malema was given 14<br \/>\ndays to appeal the ruling. An appeal would have allowed him to<br \/>\nstay in his position as party leader of the youth wing until the<br \/>\nappeals process was exhausted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC handed him a five-year suspension in November after<br \/>\nfinding him guilty of violating ANC rules by causing rifts in<br \/>\nthe group and undermining its credibility with calls for the<br \/>\noverthrow of the democratic government of neighbouring Botswana.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema appeals to ANC to stay as party member * Will not take the ruling party to court over expulsion * ANC&#8217;s Youth League meeting on Monday to discuss strategy JOHANNESBURG, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Julius Malema has asked to stay on as a member of the ruling African National Congress despite being expelled [&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-8562","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\/8562","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=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}