{"id":8606,"date":"2012-03-06T02:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africas-malema-to-appeal-anc-decision-to-suspend-him\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:50","slug":"s-africas-malema-to-appeal-anc-decision-to-suspend-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-to-appeal-anc-decision-to-suspend-him\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Malema to appeal ANC decision to suspend him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema plans appeal and staying in office<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malema&#8217;s ouster would benefit President Zuma<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Cosmas Butunyi<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\npolitical rebel Julius Malema will appeal a decision to suspend<br \/>\nhim from the ruling ANC, saying he is being persecuted for his<br \/>\ncalls to nationalise mines and seize white-owned farm land, his<br \/>\nYouth League said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress last week decided to expel<br \/>\nMalema, the leader of its youth wing, for violating party rules,<br \/>\ncausing rifts in the group and bringing the movement into<br \/>\ndisrepute.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Members of the influential Youth League shot back at their<br \/>\nparent organisation on Monday, in a widening rift between party<br \/>\nhead President Jacob Zuma and the more radical youth movement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ANC Youth League will never agree that its leadership<br \/>\nbe subjected to unfair and unjust treatment or banished for<br \/>\nnarrow political purposes,&#8221; its said in a statement read at a<br \/>\nnews conference by its deputy president, Ronald Lamola.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, dressed in a T-shirt, sunglasses and what his league<br \/>\ndescribes as a &#8220;revolutionary beret&#8221;, was present but kept<br \/>\nsilent through the briefing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malema, one of the party&#8217;s best orators whose calls for<br \/>\nradical transformation of Africa&#8217;s biggest economy resonated<br \/>\nwith poor blacks, has increasingly criticised Zuma.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Malema plans appeal and staying in office * Malema&#8217;s ouster would benefit President Zuma By Cosmas Butunyi JOHANNESBURG, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South African political rebel Julius Malema will appeal a decision to suspend him from the ruling ANC, saying he is being persecuted for his calls to nationalise mines and seize white-owned farm [&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-8606","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\/8606","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=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}