{"id":5483,"date":"2013-06-17T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2013-06-17T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T10:40:45","slug":"pan-africanist-youth-leader-calls-mandela-a-sell-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"Pan Africanist Youth leader calls Mandela a &#8216;sell-out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/payco.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5484\" alt=\"payco\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/payco.gif\" width=\"190\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania spokesman Sello Tladi said former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, The Citizen reported on Monday..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He betrayed us by rubber-stamping the 1913 Land Act through the adoption of [the] Freedom Charter,&#8221; Tladi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The problem with the Freedom Charter is that it made African people to be landless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tladi was reportedly addressing Pan Africanist Congress, Azanian People&#8217;s Organisation and Socialist Party of Azania supporters who had gathered at the Regina Mundi church in Soweto to commemorate Youth Day on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tladi said Mandela was greedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230; We have the majority of poor people dying of various diseases because they have no access to the expensive medication that Mandela is receiving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;What is special with Mandela that is not special with the ordinary man in the street on Soweto,&#8221; Tladi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on June 8 due to a recurring lung infection. On Monday, he was spending his tenth day in hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African National Congress spokesman Keith Khoza hit back saying the comments were simply the view of an individual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANC Youth League national task team convenor Mzwandile Masina said the comments were unfortunate, insensitive and politically immature. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania spokesman Sello Tladi said former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, The Citizen reported on Monday.. &#8220;He betrayed us by rubber-stamping the 1913 Land Act through the adoption of [the] Freedom Charter,&#8221; Tladi was quoted as saying. &#8220;The problem with the Freedom Charter is that it made African people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pan Africanist Youth leader calls Mandela a &#8216;sell-out&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/payco.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}