{"id":966174,"date":"2024-03-11T20:06:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=966174"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:06:55","slug":"pandor-says-she-wont-discuss-da-letter-during-her-trip-to-us-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/pandor-says-she-wont-discuss-da-letter-during-her-trip-to-us-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandor says she won\u2019t discuss DA letter during her trip to US"},"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>Minister of International Relations and Cooperations Naledi Pandor says she\u2019s heading to the US to have engagements on a range of issues but will not discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/ramaphosa-says-da-is-trying-to-sell-sa-to-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Alliance\u2019s (DA) letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DA has written to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting America to send an Election Observer Mission to South Africa ahead of the polls in May.<\/p>\n<p>Pandor says the country has had many successful elections before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo write such a letter particularly to countries that do not have observation and they have very low participation rates in the elections is rather surprising and demeaning attitude about Africa and the people of South Africa. I\u2019m going to the US and I\u2019ll be having several meeting there but I will not mention this letter, I don\u2019t wish to embarrass South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong>VIDEO | ANC slams DA over letter to US State Secretary Blinken:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpTpilVfqLg?si=WqqBjxqPzZPIweEZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Minister of International Relations and Cooperations Naledi Pandor says she\u2019s heading to the US to have engagements on a range of issues but will not discuss the Democratic Alliance\u2019s (DA) letter. The DA has written to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting America to send an Election Observer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":966175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1895],"tags":[339,1992,662,1993,1994],"class_list":["post-966174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-news","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-democratic-alliances-letter","tag-elections","tag-minister-of-international-relations","tag-naledi-pandor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966174","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}