{"id":966166,"date":"2024-03-11T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=966166"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:52:46","slug":"anc-confident-about-its-candidates-ahead-of-upcoming-elections-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-confident-about-its-candidates-ahead-of-upcoming-elections-31\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC confident about its candidates ahead of upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party has confidence in the people that are on its candidates\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>He says they are ready to work with all South Africans to implement the party\u2019s 2024 election manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula was addressing the media in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe qualifications and combined experience of our 2024 candidates, reflects a party that has gained enormous experience in governance and development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new additions to our list bring with them experience in civil society, business, the youth, trade union movements and traditional leadership which will only enrich how we govern and represent people over the coming five years,\u201d adds Mbalula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The video below is reporting more on the story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXUT3etmiTI?si=LZvM1sE0A-4_VFPU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa added that the party had nothing to hide on its candidates\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/leaking-of-anc-candidate-lists-demeans-iec-processes-ramaphosa\/?hilite=anc+lists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list was leaked<\/a> on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted Mbalula to write to the Electoral Commission, requesting it to investigate the circumstances that led to the leak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IEC probes ANC, MK candidate list leak, Dr Ebrahim Harvey looks at the matter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9BoqmRZRlxs?si=MQfb55hH4ac6fI-5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party has confidence in the people that are on its candidates\u2019 list. He says they are ready to work with all South Africans to implement the party\u2019s 2024 election manifesto. Mbalula was addressing the media in Johannesburg. \u201cThe qualifications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":966167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1895],"tags":[1909,1944,1709],"class_list":["post-966166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-election-manifesto","tag-fikile-mbalula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966166","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}