{"id":9605,"date":"2012-04-04T03:48:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africas-anc-lashes-out-at-malema-for-dictator-comment\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T03:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:51","slug":"s-africas-anc-lashes-out-at-malema-for-dictator-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-anc-lashes-out-at-malema-for-dictator-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa’s ANC lashes out at Malema for ‘dictator’ comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jon Herskovitz and Tiisetso Motsoeneng<\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, April 3<\/span> (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling ANC
\nparty on Tuesday harshly reprimanded rebellious Youth League
\nleader Julius Malema, angrily condemning his assertion that
\nPresident Jacob Zuma’s government is a dictatorship.<\/p>\n

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Still smarting after Malema accused the president of trying
\nto crush him and the party’s Youth League, the African National
\nCongress put on a show of unity holding a news conference with
\nall its six top leaders, including Zuma.<\/p>\n

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“It is not only disingenuous but a deliberate falsehood,”
\nSecretary General Gwede Mantashe said of Malema’s comments.<\/p>\n

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The young firebrand’s slurs on Zuma were “crude”,
\n“disrespectful”, “incomprehensible” and “insulting,” he added.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Malema, who has been formally expelled from the
\nparty pending an appeal, told an ANC-backed rally at Wits
\nUniversity in Johannesburg: “We have seen under President Zuma
\ndemocracy being replaced with dictatorship.”<\/p>\n

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One of the party’s best orators, Malema has become an
\nincreasingly vocal critic of Zuma, refusing to tone down
\nrhetoric advocating a radical transformation of Africa’s biggest
\neconomy with the take-over of mines and white-owned farmland.<\/p>\n

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He was expelled from the party for sowing division in ANC
\nranks but the ANC has allowed him to stay in his post and speak
\nat its major events pending the outcome of an appeal process
\nthat has already lasted several months.<\/p>\n

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His next appeal hearing will be heard next week. Malema has
\nsaid the process has been politically motivated.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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