{"id":967245,"date":"2024-05-25T19:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967245"},"modified":"2024-05-25T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T19:41:35","slug":"ifp-to-hold-final-rally-in-umhlathuze-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ifp-to-hold-final-rally-in-umhlathuze-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"IFP to hold final rally in Umhlathuze on Sunday"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/924672-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)<\/a> is on Sunday expected to hold its Siyanqoba rally in Umhlathuze in Richards Bay, north of KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as parties wrap up the final weekend of campaigning ahead of the May 29th polls.\u00a0IFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa is set to address party members and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP is one of the parties making up the multi-party charter. This includes the Democratic Alliance (DA), ActionSA and other smaller parties.<\/p>\n<p>The party meanwhile, governed KZN until 2004 when leadership shifted to the African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p>In the 2019 general elections, the IFP secured 3.38% of votes equating to 14 seats in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This will also be the IFP\u2019s first election without its founding leader and late president emeritus Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.<\/p>\n<p>Mangosuthu passed away on September in 2023.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Elections 2024 | IFP election campaign under way in KZN<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dn7Ft1ViVzk?si=VMKc8s4GH0zeEUed\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is on Sunday expected to hold its Siyanqoba rally in Umhlathuze in Richards Bay, north of KwaZulu-Natal. This comes as parties wrap up the final weekend of campaigning ahead of the May 29th polls.\u00a0IFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa is set to address party members and supporters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":967246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,660,440,556],"class_list":["post-967245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-elections-2024","tag-ifp","tag-inkatha-freedom-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967245","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}