{"id":996012,"date":"2022-02-18T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/opinion-was-coetzee-pressured-to-resign-for-speaking-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:45:40","slug":"opinion-was-coetzee-pressured-to-resign-for-speaking-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/opinion-was-coetzee-pressured-to-resign-for-speaking-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION| Was Coetzee pressured to resign for speaking the truth ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article>\n<p>It is said that Cootzee steps down but what she said is absolutely true its very easy to verify by going online and looking at the entrance requirements, I personally know at least four students who have been rejected based on the racial requirements. On the other hand it is embraced by many Indians, coloureds and blacks what was needed here is to take a decision about the next steps. What she said, amplify and agree with what Julius Malema said in court yesterday. What\u2019s worse is that they are not remorseful and not apologetic. They hide behind Nelson Mandela dreams and finally, she only stepped down as Chair, but still staying in the board why, to defend the same narrow interests of AfriForum and Roets ?Not allowed to tell the truth about being pressured to overstate the dangers of Omicron, she is a decent lady and I guess she must be standing by her principles<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2022\/02\/18\/sama-board-chairperson-coetzee-steps-down-following-controversial-statements<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: WeOfferNews (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfriForum<br \/>Coetzee<br \/>Cootzee<br \/>Indians<br \/>Julius Malema<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that Cootzee steps down but what she said is absolutely true its very easy to verify by going online and looking at the entrance requirements, I personally know at least four students who have been rejected based on the racial requirements. On the other hand it is embraced by many Indians, coloureds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":996013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}