{"id":5816,"date":"2013-06-21T06:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2013-06-21T06:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:32:45","slug":"malema-case-to-continue-in-pietersburg-magistrates-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5816","title":{"rendered":"Malema case to continue in Pietersburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Julius+Malema4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5817\" alt=\"Julius Malema\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Julius+Malema4-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Julius+Malema4-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Julius+Malema4.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julius Malema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema&#8217;s corruption case will continue in the Pietersburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, Malema told the court he feared that a delay in setting a trial date for his case could jeopardise the launch of his new political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The sooner this case is finished, the better. I am in the process of forming a [political] party,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema blamed President Jacob Zuma for some of his troubles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It becomes impossible to convince people to join the party. President Zuma has done everything to make sure that I lost everything and block whoever is linked with Malema,&#8221; he told the court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema is accused of making nearly R4 million from corrupt activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is out on bail of R10,000 and faces charges of fraud, corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His co-accused are his business associates Kagisho Dichabe, Lesiba Gwangwa, Helen Moreroa, and Makgetsi Manthata, who are out on bail of R40,000 each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State alleges Malema and the others misrepresented themselves to the Limpopo roads and transport department, leading to a R52m contract being awarded to On-Point Engineering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to court papers, Malema had business ties with Gwangwa, a director of On-Point Engineering. Malema&#8217;s Ratanang Family Trust was an indirect shareholder in On-Point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The department paid the company R43m. According to the charge sheet, Malema substantially benefited from this payment, using it to buy a farm and a Mercedes-Benz. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema&#8217;s corruption case will continue in the Pietersburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday. On Thursday, Malema told the court he feared that a delay in setting a trial date for his case could jeopardise the launch of his new political party. &#8220;The sooner this case is finished, the better. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malema case to continue in Pietersburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2931,3357,166,3356,346,3358,1385,1392],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-case","tag-gwangwa","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-magistratates-court","tag-malema","tag-on-point-engineering","tag-pietersburg","tag-polokwane"],"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\/Julius+Malema4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5819,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}