{"id":81328,"date":"2020-03-11T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81328"},"modified":"2020-03-11T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T10:59:34","slug":"south-african-court-clears-president-of-graft-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/south-african-court-clears-president-of-graft-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"South African court clears president of graft allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A South African court has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of allegations that he misled parliament about the funding of his campaign to become leader of the ruling African National Congress party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramaphosa had been accused by the country\u2019s public watchdog of misleading lawmakers about a USD 34,000 contribution from the CEO of a local company, Africa Global Operations, formerly known as Bosasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has been implicated in a state probe into allegations of corruption in government and state-owned enterprises during former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s tenure from 2009 to 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday dismissed the watchdog\u2019s report which is a boost for Ramaphosa, who became president on promises to rid South Africa of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African court has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of allegations that he misled parliament about the funding of his campaign to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81330,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328\/revisions\/81330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}