{"id":967231,"date":"2024-05-25T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967231"},"modified":"2024-05-25T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:04:04","slug":"rise-mzansi-calls-for-new-young-leadership-with-fresh-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/rise-mzansi-calls-for-new-young-leadership-with-fresh-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise Mzansi calls for new, young leadership with fresh ideas"},"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>Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi has taken his campaign trail to his hometown, Mqanduli, in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>He says it is time for young leadership with a plan to combat lack of service delivery, infrastructure challenges, access to health care facilities, skills development and gender based violence (GBV), to take their rightful place.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a rally at Mqanduli Townhall, Zibi says these challenges can be combated by young leaders with fresh ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have had a great campaign. It\u2019s been really challenging because South Africa is big and we are a new organisation. But we\u2019ve been to all nine provinces with a simple message, it\u2019s time for new leaders, it\u2019s time for younger leaders, energetic leaders with fresh ideas who care about communities where they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also been saying we need leaders with a plan for jobs, for water, for single mothers, for early childhood development day-care centres and against crime,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Sivuyile Velemba has called for the acceleration of service delivery during the rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have electricity, we do not have water. They installed water taps this year but they are dry. What are we voting for, Rise Mzansi will develop Mzansi.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mqanduli is rising this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The community has come out in its numbers to show support for RISE Mzansi National Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SongezoZibi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SongezoZibi<\/a> ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAElections24?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SAElections24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The community is also here to witness him sign the RISE Mzansi Contract with the People of South Africa,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V95Cmn5GMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/V95Cmn5GMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RISE Mzansi (@Rise_Mzansi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rise_Mzansi\/status\/1794350821276061713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi has taken his campaign trail to his hometown, Mqanduli, in the Eastern Cape. He says it is time for young leadership with a plan to combat lack of service delivery, infrastructure challenges, access to health care facilities, skills development and gender based violence (GBV), to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[559,1969,813,244,1048],"class_list":["post-967231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eastern-cape","tag-election-campaign","tag-gbv","tag-rise-mzansi","tag-songezo-zibi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967231","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=967231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}