{"id":7963,"date":"2012-03-23T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7963"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T11:17:46","slug":"south-africa-court-orders-release-of-zuma-graft-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/23\/south-africa-court-orders-release-of-zuma-graft-files\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa court orders release of Zuma graft files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jacob-Zuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jacob-Zuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jacob Zuma\" width=\"320\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7966\" \/><\/a>South Africa&#8217;s highest court says it has granted the main opposition party the right to examine files on a corruption case against the nation&#8217;s president that was dropped in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark ruling Tuesday the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the release to the Democratic Party of official documents on an arms deal that allegedly implicated President Jacob Zuma and landed a close adviser in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party had demanded to know why corruption charges against Zuma were scrapped ahead of 2009 elections he won. It applauded Tuesday&#8217;s ruling but said it expected to be obstructed in its quest to reopen the case.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma&#8217;s office said in a statement the ruling &#8220;is being studied&#8221; for its implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s highest court says it has granted the main opposition party the right to examine files on a corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1027,317,1852,1853,379],"class_list":["post-7963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-graft","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}