{"id":13421,"date":"2014-03-17T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13421"},"modified":"2014-03-17T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:31:55","slug":"rupert-laughs-at-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13421","title":{"rendered":"Rupert laughs at Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13422\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13422\" alt=\"Two parties?\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two parties? Rupert denies Malema&#8217;s claims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julius Malema has accused billionaire businessman Johann Rupert of controlling the ANC and DA and being behind the EFF leader&#8217;s tax and political woes, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Rupert was contacted for comment by the paper, he laughed uncontrollably before asking: &#8220;Did he really, really say that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rupert told the newspaper that he funded neither the DA nor the ANC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema accused Rupert of supporting both parties as well as the SA Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The ANC and DA are one thing. They agree on everything. The ANC is a black DA and the DA is a white ANC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All of them are controlled by Rupert and friends,&#8221; the Economic Freedom Fighters leader told supporters at a rally in Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema told the crowd that Rupert wanted the ANC to deal with him when he was its youth league leader. He also said that Rupert controlled the SA Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rupert said the ANC Youth League is like an irritating mosquito in a room and it needs a Doom.\u00a0President Jacob Zuma became that &#8216;Doom&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Sapa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Malema has accused billionaire businessman Johann Rupert of controlling the ANC and DA and being behind the EFF leader&#8217;s tax and political woes, the Sunday Times reported. When Rupert was contacted for comment by the paper, he laughed uncontrollably before asking: &#8220;Did he really, really say that?&#8221; Rupert told the newspaper that he funded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rupert laughs at Malema&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,97,8662,7674,23,1297],"class_list":["post-13421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-doom","tag-johann-rupert","tag-julius-malema","tag-sars"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rupert22.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13424,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions\/13424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}