{"id":92120,"date":"2015-06-30T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=92120"},"modified":"2015-06-30T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:59:11","slug":"watch-mmusi-maimane-roasted-by-bbc-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/92120\/watch-mmusi-maimane-roasted-by-bbc-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Mmusi Maimane roasted by BBC journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DA leader, Mmusi Maimane, faced fresh accusations that the political party is a white party with a black face in an interview with the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance elected Maimane as its first ever black leader in May, after long serving <span class=\"st\">leader Helen Zille stepped down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maimane faced a barrage of questions from Zeinab Badawi, a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist on the Beeb&#8217;s HardTalk news cast.<\/p>\n<p>Badawi questioned the DA&#8217;s continual allegations of corruption charges against president Jacob Zuma for his homestead at Nkandla, which the journalist said are unsubstantiated.<\/p>\n<p>Badawi also questioned the DA&#8217;s motives relating to the Marikana shooting in August 2012, in which 34 miners were shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch it here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TY9FBxxErtk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on politics in SA<\/h3>\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\/90756\/zuma-blames-sa-unemployment-on-economy\/\">SA unemployment is the economy\u2019s fault: Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DA leader, Mmusi Maimane faced fresh accusations that the political party is a white party with a black face in an interview with the BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":92130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2158,26,5159],"class_list":["post-92120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-bbc","tag-headline","tag-mmusi-maimane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92120","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=92120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92126,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92120\/revisions\/92126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}