{"id":5926,"date":"2013-06-24T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2013-06-24T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T06:43:14","slug":"xhosa-king-attacks-zuma-praises-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5926","title":{"rendered":"Xhosa king attacks Zuma, praises Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo has described the ANC and President Jacob Zuma as “corrupt hooligans” in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, The Times reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

At a prayer service for former president Nelson Mandela, Dalindyebo reportedly said the African National Congress had distorted the anti-apartheid icon’s legacy and behaved arrogantly.<\/p>\n

“Zuma’s leadership is distorting Madiba’s leadership, it’s distorting the ANC’s leadership.”<\/p>\n

ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu told the newspaper the king’s remarks were “unfortunate”.<\/p>\n

“He can’t insult a head of state and then demand to be respected in turn.”<\/p>\n

Mthembu said the king should allow his “subjects” to decide for themselves who they would vote for in elections.<\/p>\n

Dalindyebo said if the party remained in power for another 10 years, South Africans’ freedom would be compromised.<\/p>\n

He said: “I will stop smoking dagga the day Zuma stops being corrupt”. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo has described the ANC and President Jacob Zuma as “corrupt hooligans” in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, The Times reported on Monday. At a prayer service for former president Nelson Mandela, Dalindyebo reportedly said the African National Congress had distorted the anti-apartheid icon’s legacy and behaved arrogantly. “Zuma’s leadership is … Continue reading “Xhosa king attacks Zuma, praises Mandela”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3404,64,327,345],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-abathembu-king-buyelekhaya-zwelibanzi-dalindyebo","tag-anc","tag-mandela","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\/2013\/06\/xhosa_king.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926","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=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}