{"id":177063,"date":"2017-05-30T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=177063"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:08:08","slug":"da-lays-criminal-case-against-zuma-and-11-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/177063\/da-lays-criminal-case-against-zuma-and-11-others\/","title":{"rendered":"DA lays criminal case against Zuma and 11 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance opened a criminal case against President Jacob Zuma and 11 others at the Cape Town Central Police Station on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by fellow MP and ex-prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, as well as MP Kevin Mileham, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said their &#8220;preliminary indictment&#8221; was in response to weekend reports about leaked emails, purportedly substantiating claims of inappropriately close links between the controversial Gupta family and government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Maimane said the emails were included in their case and would be supplemented if more came to light.<\/p>\n<p>Others named in their allegations include Co-operative Governance Minister Des Van Rooyen and Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba.<\/p>\n<p>Maimane said they should ultimately be charged in terms of the Prevention of Criminal Activities Act for allegedly receiving benefits, as well as for racketeering and treason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only should you deal with this matter in Parliament, but you should deal with it criminally,&#8221; Maimane said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/da-opens-criminal-case-against-zuma-11-others-20170530\">News24<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"DA to lay criminal charges against president Zuma\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/176843\/da-to-lay-criminal-charges-against-president-zuma\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DA to lay criminal charges against president Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance opened a criminal case against President Jacob Zuma and 11 others at the Cape Town Central Police Station on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":125553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-177063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177063","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=177063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177065,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177063\/revisions\/177065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}