{"id":967060,"date":"2024-05-18T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967060"},"modified":"2024-05-18T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:54:10","slug":"vote-us-into-power-to-realise-change-says-atm-leader-vuyo-zungula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/vote-us-into-power-to-realise-change-says-atm-leader-vuyo-zungula\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote us into power to realise change, says ATM leader Vuyo Zungula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">African Transformation Movement (ATM) President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/atm-fs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vuyo Zungula<\/a> says they will do more to improve the lives of South Africans if elected into power.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He was addressing supporters at a rally in Sipaqeni, Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape, where he also handed over a house to an impoverished family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The family of seven, is headed by a 25-year-old, who has six siblings.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">They had been living in a dilapidating two-room mud house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 25-year-old, who has been looking after her siblings alone for the past three years, said owning or getting a decent home was a relief for her and her family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Meanwhile, Zungula said decent homes and access to education are some of the party&#8217;s top priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;As we&#8217;ve done with this particular household, we are doing it across the different provinces and\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">across<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the country with limited resources because we have a political will as the party to who what is right by the people,&#8221; he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He adds: &#8220;We want to emphasise that with only two seats and with limited representation across the entire country, when it comes to councillors, we have done a lot as a party. We are just asking people that on May 29, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0increase our power.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">2024 Elections I African Transformation Movement launching its election manifesto in Soweto<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTD1ejU7_7s?si=5Wf4QSku2aWM96Gi\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes African Transformation Movement (ATM) President Vuyo Zungula says they will do more to improve the lives of South Africans if elected into power.\u00a0He was addressing supporters at a rally in Sipaqeni, Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape, where he also handed over a house to an impoverished family.\u00a0 The family of seven, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,2040,573,559,2041],"class_list":["post-967060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-african-transformation-movement","tag-atm","tag-eastern-cape","tag-vuyo-zungula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967060","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=967060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}