{"id":110797,"date":"2016-01-30T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110797"},"modified":"2016-01-30T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:01:38","slug":"gareth-cliff-is-a-racist-of-the-highest-extremes-ancyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/110797\/gareth-cliff-is-a-racist-of-the-highest-extremes-ancyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Cliff is a racist of the highest extremes: ANCYL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) said it plans to picket and protest outside of the <em>Idols<\/em> auditions in Durban on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Thembinkosi Josopu of the ANC Youth League\u2019s national executive committee told ANN7 on Friday night that \u201cGareth Cliff is a racist. A racist of the highest extremes\u201d and \u201canti-black\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will picket outside at the Idols auditions in Durban. We are going to protest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after judge Caroline Nicholls ruled in the South Gauteng High Court on Friday that M-Net should reinstate Cliff as a judge on the reality singing competition.<\/p>\n<p>M-Net issued a terse statement hours after the court verdict, finally confirming that they \u201cwill reinstate Gareth Cliff as a judge on season 12 of <em>Idols<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>None of the judges will be present at the auditions in Durban as they only participate in the next round in which golden tickets are handed out for theatre week.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff intends to hold a press conference on Saturday at the CliffCentral headquarters in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Rival new reality singing show <em>The Voice South Africa<\/em> starts Sunday at 17:30 on the M-Net (DStv 101) with Idols that\u2019s been moved to the Mzansi Magic. Earlier this week M-Net told TV critics that\u00a0 \u201cThe Voice SA is our new premium local production\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/The-Juice\/ancyl-plans-to-protest-at-idols-auditions-20160130\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Gareth Cliff<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/110639\/gareth-cliff-wins-case-against-m-net\/\">Gareth Cliff wins legal case against M-Net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/109553\/m-net-to-fight-back-against-gareth-cliff-lawsuit\/\">M-Net to fight Gareth Cliff lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/109223\/gareth-cliff-suing-m-net-for-r25-million-report\/\">Gareth Cliff suing M-Net for R25 million: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) said it plans to picket and protest outside of the Idols auditions in Durban on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":94621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,5031,7740],"class_list":["post-110797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-ancyl","tag-gareth-cliff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110797","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110797\/revisions\/110799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}