{"id":9638,"date":"2012-04-04T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africa-anc-temporarily-ousts-rebel-malema-from-party\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:51:17","slug":"s-africa-anc-temporarily-ousts-rebel-malema-from-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-anc-temporarily-ousts-rebel-malema-from-party\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa ANC temporarily ousts rebel Malema from party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC<br \/>\nhas temporarily removed party rebel Julius Malema from his role<br \/>\nas president of its Youth League and is barring him from<br \/>\nattending party meetings, it said in a statement on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The move escalates the party fight with Malema, who has been<br \/>\nexpelled from the African National Congress for breaking party<br \/>\nrules but allowed to stay in his post and attend meetings for<br \/>\nmonths as his appeals have wound their way through party<br \/>\ncommittees.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If Malema loses his appeal, he will be formally expelled<br \/>\nfrom the party that dominates the country&#8217;s politics. He is<br \/>\nscheduled to have an appeals hearing next week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC reprimanded Malema on Tuesday, angrily condemning<br \/>\nhis assertion made last week that President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s<br \/>\ngovernment is a dictatorship..<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The temporary and immediate suspension of comrade Malema<br \/>\nwill come into effect on Wednesday, 4 April,&#8221; an ANC<br \/>\ndisciplinary panel said in a statement.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC has temporarily removed party rebel Julius Malema from his role as president of its Youth League and is barring him from attending party meetings, it said in a statement on Wednesday. The move escalates the party fight with Malema, who has been expelled from the African [&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-9638","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\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}