{"id":23462,"date":"2019-08-02T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:11:25","slug":"lesufi-to-sue-dan-roodt-over-south-african-citizenship-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/lesufi-to-sue-dan-roodt-over-south-african-citizenship-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesufi to sue Dan Roodt over South African citizenship claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ntwaagae Seleka<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has threatened to take legal action against author Dan Roodt over a tweet claiming Lesufi is not a South African citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; I have read all his [Hendrik Verwoerd] speeches. Yet, Lesufi makes racist statements about Afrikaans and Afrikaners. What right does this racist have to remove Verwoerd&#8217;s name from anything? Lesufi isn&#8217;t even South African,&#8221; wrote Roodt.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/lesufi-to-sue-dan-roodt-over-south-african-citizenship-claims-20190802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/lesufi-to-sue-dan-roodt-over-south-african-citizenship-claims-20190802<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ntwaagae Seleka Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has threatened to take legal action against author Dan Roodt over a tweet claiming Lesufi is not a South African citizen. &#8220;&#8230; I have read all his [Hendrik Verwoerd] speeches. Yet, Lesufi makes racist statements about Afrikaans and Afrikaners. What right does this racist have to remove [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23463,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions\/23463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}