{"id":8933,"date":"2018-04-05T16:11:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:11:24","slug":"zuma-will-qualify-for-all-his-benefits-even-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/zuma-will-qualify-for-all-his-benefits-even-if-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma will qualify for all his benefits, even if convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video from SABC, the court case around the corrupt former President Jacob Zuma will qualify for all his benefits, including a full salary of approximately R3 million  per annum at the taxpayers&#8217; expense. He will also receive medical and travel benefits as well as personal staff, even if he is convicted on all the charges he is facing.<\/p>\n<p>And with the state paying his legal fees, which already amount to approximately R15 million, Zuma is in a position to lodge as many objections and legal issues against proceedings that could see the court battle continue indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video from SABC, the court case around the corrupt former President Jacob Zuma will qualify for all his benefits, including a full salary of approximately R3 million per annum at the taxpayers&#8217; expense. He will also receive medical and travel benefits as well as personal staff, even if he is convicted on all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[5192,4289,491,5197,5195,5193,5194,5196,177,5191],"class_list":["post-8933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-benefits","tag-corrupt","tag-corruption","tag-legal-fees","tag-medical-benefits","tag-salary","tag-taxpayer","tag-travel-benefits","tag-zuma","tag-zuma-trial","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}