{"id":7983,"date":"2013-07-29T08:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2013-07-29T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:33:27","slug":"malema-im-persecuted-by-indians-and-afrikaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7983","title":{"rendered":"Malema: I&#8217;m persecuted by Indians and Afrikaners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7984\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/juju.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7984\" alt=\"Julius Malema\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/juju.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julius Malema<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julius Malema has alleged that the tax case against him is a politically motivated conspiracy run by a group of Indians &#8216;in bed&#8217; with Afrikaners.The Economic Freedom Fighters leader alleged this in a report by the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m subjected to political persecution by political leadership led by [Finance Minister] Pravin [Gordhan], with his group of Indians,&#8221; Malema was quoted as telling the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a small clique of Indians who are in bed with a group of Afrikaners in [the SA Revenue Service (Sars)], and Afrikaners in the law fraternity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He reportedly claimed the &#8220;small group of Indians&#8221; had a &#8220;political programme&#8221; against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Afrikaner are [sic] pursuing a racial hatred against Julius and what he advocates for,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, Malema&#8217;s Polokwane house was auctioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sars attached the property to recoup Malema&#8217;s R16-million tax debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May, Malema&#8217;s incomplete mansion in Sandton, Johannesburg, was sold at auction for R5.9-million. His farm in Limpopo fetched R2.5-milolion at auction in June. Several of his household goods were also auctioned earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malema also faces corruption charges in the Polokwane Magistrate&#8217;s Court. He is accused of making nearly R4 million from corrupt activities, and is out on bail of R10 000. \u2013 Sapa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Malema has alleged that the tax case against him is a politically motivated conspiracy run by a group of Indians &#8216;in bed&#8217; with Afrikaners.The Economic Freedom Fighters leader alleged this in a report by the Sunday Times. &#8220;I&#8217;m subjected to political persecution by political leadership led by [Finance Minister] Pravin [Gordhan], with his group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malema: I&#8217;m persecuted by Indians and Afrikaners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[85,3282,23,4394,1297],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-afrikaners","tag-eff","tag-julius-malema","tag-sa-revenue-service","tag-sars"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/juju.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","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=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7986,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/7986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}