{"id":141481,"date":"2016-10-27T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=141481"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:54:23","slug":"watch-zuma-caught-napping-during-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/141481\/watch-zuma-caught-napping-during-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Zuma caught napping during budget speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has been filmed falling asleep during Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan\u2019s mid-term budget speech, which took place on 26 October.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2016\/10\/27\/WATCH-Zuma-falls-asleep-during-Gordhans-mid-term-budget-speech\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Times Live<\/strong><\/a>, Zuma nodded off and was filmed sleeping at 1 hour and 14 minutes into\u00a0Gordhan\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>Economists and opposition political parties have called on Zuma to step down as leader of the country, due to the financial and social\u00a0damage he is doing to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>An image and video of Zuma sleeping during the speech is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eeerJOhry1w\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/140725\/watch-security-guard-attacked-by-feesmustfall-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: security guard attacked by #FeesMustFall protesters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/139819\/watch-zuma-dances-the-night-away-as-south-africa-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Zuma dances the night away as South Africa burns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has been filmed falling asleep during Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan\u2019s mid-term budget speech, which took place on 26 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":132603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-141481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141481","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141485,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141481\/revisions\/141485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}