{"id":8805,"date":"2012-03-12T03:06:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africas-malema-pleads-to-stay-in-anc-family\/"},"modified":"2012-03-12T03:06:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:06:15","slug":"s-africas-malema-pleads-to-stay-in-anc-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-malema-pleads-to-stay-in-anc-family\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa’s Malema pleads to stay in ANC ‘family’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Youth League rebel makes rare public apology<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Rejects corruption charges, blasts media<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, March 11<\/span> (Reuters) – South Africa’s ANC
\nyouth rebel Julius Malema pleaded on Sunday for the ruling party
\nnot to expel him and made a rare public apology to the
\nmovement’s senior leadership which he has frequently criticised
\nas too moderate in their policies.<\/p>\n

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Malema, 31, confirmed he would appeal against the African
\nNational Congress (ANC) decision last month to expel him on
\ncharges of sowing divisions within its ranks, which he denies.<\/p>\n

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Striking an unusually contrite figure in an interview
\nbroadcast on state TV, the suspended ANC Youth League leader
\ninsisted he had done nothing wrong by calling for
\nnationalisation of mines and the seizure of white-owned land in
\nSouth Africa, the world’s biggest producer of platinum.<\/p>\n

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One of the ANC’s most dramatic orators, his calls for a
\nradical transformation of Africa’s biggest economy had resonated
\nwith poor blacks. He frequently mocked President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n

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But in an interview on the State of Our Nation programme
\nshown live by state broadcaster SABC, he asked to be allowed to
\nstay on in the ANC, saying membership was “my life” and that he
\nhad joined the anti-apartheid movement at the age of nine.<\/p>\n

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“Please leave me with a card because the imagination of
\nbeing outside the ANC is too scary. I love the ANC, I don’t have
\nanything except the ANC,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“I want to apologise to the leadership of the ANC for
\nanything they think I’ve done wrong … I did not do it
\ndeliberately,” said Malema, wearing his traditional black beret
\nand a yellow T-shirt bearing the portrait of anti-apartheid icon
\nNelson Mandela.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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