{"id":98,"date":"2018-07-19T04:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/?p=98"},"modified":"2018-07-19T04:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:46:44","slug":"to-amend-the-constitution-would-be-an-insult-to-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/2018\/07\/19\/to-amend-the-constitution-would-be-an-insult-to-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"To amend the Constitution would be an insult to Mandela."},"content":{"rendered":"

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MAHIKENG – Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota<\/a> says those attacking his character at land hearings don’t understand the sacrifices he’s made for the country.<\/p>\n

Lekota was speaking on the sidelines of Wednesday’s hearings in the North West<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He’s part of a parliamentary delegation listening to submissions on the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the heated debate, a number of people attacked Lekota for speaking out against the amendment, calling him a disappointment to the movement he once stood for.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Mr Mosioua Lekota, you\u2019re a disgrace. After a very long time of being in the struggle\u2026 this white monopoly capital has an art of dividing us as black people.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he dismissed the claims, saying those who hold these views do not know him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Constitution signed by Mandela and all the leadership, did they betray the people? I spent 13 and a half years of my life in prison and we never demanded that we want to punish the people that sentenced us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lekota says on Mandela Day, deciding to amend the Constitution would be an insult to the efforts and sacrifices made by the former president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/07\/18\/lekota-slams-critics-of-his-land-expropriation-views MAHIKENG – Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota says those attacking his character at land hearings don’t understand … Read More “To amend the Constitution would be an insult to Mandela.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ir8.co.za\/PR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}