{"id":967397,"date":"2024-05-28T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967397"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:45:06","slug":"contralesa-urges-voters-to-exercise-their-rights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/contralesa-urges-voters-to-exercise-their-rights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contralesa urges voters to exercise their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress of Traditional Leaders in South Africa has called on all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/special-voting-disrupted-in-joe-slovo-gqeberha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eligible voters<\/a> to go out and cast their votes tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of South Africans will make their mark in the general elections on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Congress\u2019s President Kgoshi Lameck says, \u201cWe want to call upon all of them to stop intimidating people or forcing people to do what you think is good for you. People have got a choice to vote for the organization of their own choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make a humble request to all organizations to say please can we give people a chance to exercise their own right to vote for the organisation of their own choice. Let\u2019s not force people, let\u2019s not disrupt this process because if you feel you don\u2019t have any interest of many South Africans you have no interest in this elections,\u201d adds Lameck.<\/p>\n<p>2024 Elections | \u201cWe can\u2019t stop voting\u201d: Velile Tsotetsi<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bs0MFONN_ok?si=FBM1pESonzH_fdXh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress of Traditional Leaders in South Africa has called on all eligible voters to go out and cast their votes tomorrow. Millions of South Africans will make their mark in the general elections on Wednesday. Congress\u2019s President Kgoshi Lameck says, \u201cWe want to call upon all of them to stop intimidating people or forcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":967398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[2763,2764,2765],"class_list":["post-967397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-blog","tag-congress-of-traditional-leaders-in-south-africa","tag-kgoshi-lameck","tag-south-africans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967397","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}