{"id":5237,"date":"2014-09-14T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2014-09-14T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T09:20:07","slug":"botswana-president-a-dictator-eff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-president-a-dictator-eff\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana president a dictator &#8211; EFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Botswana&#8217;s refusal to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa showed that its President Ian Khama was a dictator, the party said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns the refusal by the autocratic military government of Botswana to grant the CIC [commander in chief] Julius Malema a visa,&#8221; its national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are absolutely no grounds for a so-called democratic country to refuse a person a visa merely on the basis that he holds a different political view to that of the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malema&#8217;s expulsion from the African National Congress in 2012 was partly because he threatened to bring about regime change in Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>Malema said in July 2011 that there was a vacuum in the ideological and political leadership of Africa and the sub-regions, the Sunday Times reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly said the ANC Youth League intended establishing a Botswana command team, which would work towards uniting all oppositional forces in Botswana &#8220;to oppose the puppet regime of Botswana, led by the Botswana Democratic Party&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/EFF-Botswana-president-a-dictator-20140912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Botswana&#8217;s refusal to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa showed that its President Ian Khama was a dictator, the party said on Friday. &#8220;The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns the refusal by the autocratic military government of Botswana to grant the CIC [commander in chief] Julius Malema a visa,&#8221; its national spokesperson Mbuyiseni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4045,4047,4718,4049,2462,1662,4043,1740,1741,4041,4040,4044,4042,3836,1739,257,4048,4039,4046,254,4693],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc-youth-league","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-democratic-party","tag-botswana-news","tag-commander-in-chief","tag-dictator","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-eff-leader","tag-eff-leader-julius-malema","tag-expulsion-from-the-african-national-congress","tag-ian-khama-was-a-dictator","tag-julius-malema","tag-malema","tag-news","tag-puppet-regime-of-botswana","tag-refusal-to-grant-eff-leader-julius-malema-a-visa","tag-regime-change-in-botswana","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}