{"id":965490,"date":"2024-07-12T19:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965490"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:46:47","slug":"president-ramaphosa-to-chair-first-gnu-cabinet-lekgotla-in-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/president-ramaphosa-to-chair-first-gnu-cabinet-lekgotla-in-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramaphosa to chair first GNU cabinet lekgotla in Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa will chair the first Government of National Unity (GNU) cabinet lekgotla this weekend. The much-anticipated Lekgotla will take place at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria from Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day meeting will be presided over by President Ramaphosa and his deputy Paul Mashatile and will bring together ministers and their deputies, premiers, directors-general and representatives from the South African Local Government Association.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time in 30 years that several parties take part in drafting the country&#8217;s action programme for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The economic trajectory of the country as well as energy security will feature promptly as the lekgotla will also lay the foundation for the State of the Nation Address.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and the Director General will craft South Africa&#8217;s economic group plan and initiatives to eradicate the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and underdevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says despite this executive drawn from so many parties, they will all champion the policy of the government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video: GNU &#8211; Ramaphosa will chair the first government of National Unity Cabinet Lekgotla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hY_5EkB_0fM?si=TyD8sYfVKGzLJWqo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa will chair the first Government of National Unity cabinet lekgotla this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965490","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}