{"id":106007,"date":"2015-12-02T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=106007"},"modified":"2015-12-02T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:09:22","slug":"watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/106007\/watch-julius-malema-grilled-by-bbc-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Julius Malema grilled by BBC journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, faced a number of difficult questions on wealth and land redistribution in South Africa, in a television interview in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Malema has recently returned from a tour to England which included speaking at the Oxford Union at Oxford University and meeting with academics, international firms, the SA Chamber of Commerce in London.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview with BBC HARDtalk, Malema said that local businesses must surrender 51% of their shares to the workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have exploited the wealth of the country for too long,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/102667\/whites-you-have-been-warned-malema\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whites \u2013 you have been warned: Malema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malema faced a number of difficult questions from Zeinab Badawi, a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist on the Beeb\u2019s HardTalk news cast.<\/p>\n<p>Badawi asked where the money was going to come from to compensate business.<\/p>\n<p>When she raised a question about land redistribution, Malema became animated, accusing the government of doing nothing in its 21 years of power.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist asked if Malema is prepared to use force if the demands of the EFF aren&#8217;t met.<\/p>\n<p>Malema said that the EFF would engage in &#8220;persuasive and peaceful&#8221; discussions with business leaders, adding that the use of civil disobedience to force through reforms would not be used &#8220;until our people are pushed to the limit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p039sld7\/player\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More videos<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/92120\/watch-mmusi-maimane-roasted-by-bbc-journalist\/\">Watch: Mmusi Maimane roasted by BBC journalist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/90684\/what-south-africa-could-look-like-in-2029\/\"><strong>What South Africa could look like in 2029<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/104715\/watch-zuma-finds-parliament-very-funny-again\/\">Watch: Zuma finds Parliament very funny, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, faced a number of difficult questions on wealth and land redistribution in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2158,6934,26,6370],"class_list":["post-106007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-bbc","tag-eff","tag-headline","tag-julius-malema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106073,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106007\/revisions\/106073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}