{"id":5715,"date":"2015-07-06T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:00:30","slug":"zimbabwe-opposition-parties-blast-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-parties-blast-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe opposition parties blast Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have torn into South Africa\u2019s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema for praising President Robert Malema, saying he has taken leave of his senses.<\/p>\n<p>Malema this week said Mugabe is not to blame for the problems in Zimbabwe and that he and other African leaders, with the exception of South Africa should rule for as long as they like.<\/p>\n<p>Obert Gutu, MDC spokesperson, laid into Malema branding him a man of unsound mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJulius Malema must have taken leave of his senses. Whatever he is smoking is certainly playing havoc with his mental faculties. For anyone to suggest that Robert Mugabe is not to blame for the problems in Zimbabwe, that person would be clearly of unsound mind,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.co.zw\/articles\/2015\/07\/05\/zim-opposition-parties-blast-malema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8211; Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malema made headlines when he told journalists at a press conference in Johannesburg that the problems in Zimbabwe were not caused by Mugabe but by &#8216;capital&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fX3zAYl4H1I?rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have torn into South Africa\u2019s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema for praising President Robert Malema, saying he has taken leave of his senses. Malema this week said Mugabe is not to blame for the problems in Zimbabwe and that he and other African leaders, with the exception of South Africa should [&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":[248],"tags":[258,256,4603,1740,1741,1739,2505,257,4604,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-leaders","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-malema","tag-mdc","tag-news","tag-obert-gutu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","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=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/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=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}