{"id":968214,"date":"2024-06-27T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968214"},"modified":"2024-06-27T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:36:13","slug":"anc-veterans-league-slams-decision-around-kodwa-becoming-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-veterans-league-slams-decision-around-kodwa-becoming-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC Veterans League slams decision around Kodwa becoming MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC Veterans League has criticised the swearing-in of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/actionsa-calls-for-probe-following-zizi-kodwas-swearing-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANC NEC member Zizi Kodwa to Parliament<\/a> earlier this week stating that it is incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, the Veterans League SG Ilva Langa says the decision by the party to allow Kodwa to be sworn in as an MP, is nothing but a misapplication of the step-aside rule.<\/p>\n<p>This is as Kodwa, who is facing corruption charges involving R1.7 million, was released on R30 000 bail after he was implicated in state capture.<\/p>\n<p>Langa says the Veterans League will be proposing that the step-aside guideline be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that Kodwa\u2019s personal interests should not be put above that of the ANC.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>COSATU reacts to Zizi Kodwa being sworn in as a Member of Parliament: Matthew Parks<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_enL1FS8hA?si=2uC61PR2lIS64ZgZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Political Analyst Lukhona Mnguni says a loophole has been created to bypass the African National Congress\u2019s step-aside resolution. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gpxj2LFelR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gpxj2LFelR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SABC News (@SABCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNews\/status\/1806198609613934814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The ANC Veterans League has criticised the swearing-in of ANC NEC member Zizi Kodwa to Parliament earlier this week stating that it is incomprehensible. In a letter addressed to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, the Veterans League SG Ilva Langa says the decision by the party to allow Kodwa to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":968215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3123,1041,2472],"class_list":["post-968214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-nec-member","tag-anc-secretary-general-fikile-mbalula","tag-zizi-kodwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}