{"id":1802,"date":"2012-09-22T05:14:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T05:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-09-22T05:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T05:14:59","slug":"malema-will-appear-in-pietersburg-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Malema will appear in Pietersburg court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julius Malema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An arrest warrant has been issued for expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and he is due to appear in a Pietersburg (ANC name: Polokwane) court next week.<\/p>\n

“We were notified today that a warrant of arrest was issued for Mr Malema,” Malema’s lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou told Sapa.<\/p>\n

“We don’t know which court and when it will happen, but we are engaging with authorities on that. It will be in Pietersburg.”<\/p>\n

She said Malema had not yet been arrested.<\/p>\n

“No, he hasn’t. My understanding is that he won’t be arrested.”<\/p>\n

She said the charges against her client were unknown.<\/p>\n

“We do not know what the charges are and we don’t have a copy of the warrant.”<\/p>\n

The City Press reported earlier that Malema faced charges of money laundering, corruption and fraud relating to his Ratanang Family Trust and its share holding in On-Point Engineering, a company that allegedly made millions from Limpopo government tenders.<\/p>\n

Earlier, authorities refused to comment or confirm the warrant.<\/p>\n

The SA Revenue Service said it had nothing to do with the warrant.<\/p>\n

“…We want to state categorically that any and all reports that SARS requested that a warrant be issued for Mr Malema’s arrest are completely untrue and without foundation,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“SARS is not involved in the criminal investigation into and prosecution of this matter.”<\/p>\n

The Hawks said it did not issue warrants.<\/p>\n

“The Hawks don’t issue warrants, so we don’t comment on that,” said Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela.<\/p>\n

Asked if the unit was planning to arrest Malema, he said: “Even if we were planning to arrest him, we won’t tell you.”<\/p>\n

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s spokesman, Zweli Mnisi, referred queries to provincial police.<\/p>\n

Gauteng police spokesman, Brigadier Neville Malila, said he knew nothing about an arrest warrant for Malema.<\/p>\n

Justice department spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Malema’s close colleague, suspended ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Malema told reporters in Johannesburg if he was arrested, it would be done illegally.<\/p>\n

“If we are illegally arrested tomorrow, we would have been arrested by [President] Jacob Zuma,” Malema said at the time.<\/p>\n

He said he was willing and ready to go to jail, and was not intimidated.<\/p>\n

“I have nothing to hide… I only have my convictions. Nothing will stop me from fighting for economic freedom, not even my death… We are unshaken.”<\/p>\n

Malema said he had it “on good authority” that there were instructions “to get rid of some us…”<\/p>\n

At the time, presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said: “The presidency is aware that this person is prone to making wildly unsubstantiated and unwarranted claims and statements, and we do not wish to dignify them.” – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An arrest warrant has been issued for expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and he is due to appear in a Pietersburg (ANC name: Polokwane) court next week. “We were notified today that a warrant of arrest was issued for Mr Malema,” Malema’s lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou told Sapa. “We don’t know which court and … Continue reading “Malema will appear in Pietersburg court”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1253,219,1266,1268,23,1267,12250],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-arrest","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-fraud","tag-julius-malema","tag-money-laundering","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}