{"id":2749,"date":"2012-10-10T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:42:57","slug":"malema-attacks-nkandla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2749","title":{"rendered":"Malema attacks Nkandla"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julius Malema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Julius Malema on Tuesday severely criticised President Jacob Zuma for the reported R203m upgrades to his Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

This amounted to stealing and was not right, Malema told striking mineworkers in Virginia, in the Free State.<\/p>\n

“They want to give you [miners] R16 000 but they give another man R250m to build a house,” Malema said.<\/p>\n

Malema was addressing a group at the Meloding Stadium. Many women and children were among the striking workers who arrived to hear him talk.<\/p>\n

He asked why Zuma’s other three homes, in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, maintained by the state, could not be used for international visitors.<\/p>\n

“Who goes to Nkandla of all places? There’s no wisdom there, nothing to learn, unless its about cultural aspects,” Malema said.<\/p>\n

Malema told the miners that\u00a0 Zuma has no respect for the country’s Constitution.<\/p>\n

“How can Zuma ask miners to respect the Constitution if he does not,” he asked them.<\/p>\n

He was referring to a recent Constitutional Court judgment that found invalid the appointment of Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n

In reading the unanimous judgment, Judge Zak Yacoob said the court reached a number of legal conclusions, including that the NDPP’s appointment was not a matter to be determined by the subjective opinion of the president.<\/p>\n

Malema told the miners Zuma hired Simelane against the guidelines stipulated by the Constitution. It was Zuma’s responsibility to protect the Constitution, yet he ignored it.<\/p>\n

He referred to a recent court decision when the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was ordered to hand over tapes to the Democratic Alliance in relation to corruption charges against Zuma being dropped.<\/p>\n

The NPA dropped the charges against Zuma just before he was elected African National Congress president and president of the country.<\/p>\n

Malema told the miners that their struggle was his struggle. He also urged the community to stand by the striking workers. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julius Malema on Tuesday severely criticised President Jacob Zuma for the reported R203m upgrades to his Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal. This amounted to stealing and was not right, Malema told striking mineworkers in Virginia, in the Free State. “They want to give you [miners] R16 000 but they give another man R250m to build a … Continue reading “Malema attacks Nkandla”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[346,1734,12250,345],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-malema","tag-nkandla","tag-south-africa","tag-zuma"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Julius-Malema2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}