{"id":967534,"date":"2024-05-30T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T10:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967534"},"modified":"2024-05-30T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T10:01:51","slug":"mantashe-surprised-by-mk-party-gains-in-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mantashe-surprised-by-mk-party-gains-in-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mantashe surprised by MK Party gains in KZN"},"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>ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has reacted with shock to the gains made by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Mantashe remains confident that the ANC will perform better in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the MK party has surpassed the ANC, the IFP, and the EFF in KZN. However, the results are not final as counting continues across the country. Mantashe believes the MK party will not replicate its success in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have done well in KZN, we must say they are doing well in KZN. They have surprised me a little bit there, but they are not going to do that in other provinces. They won\u2019t do that in the Eastern Cape. I\u2019m watching Gauteng,\u201d Mantashe says.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Mpumalanga, Mantashe responded, \u201cMpumalanga, they won\u2019t do well in Mpumalanga. We are going to do well. We are going to do well in Mpumalanga. I can tell you now, we\u2019re going to do well in Mpumalanga, we\u2019re going to do well in Limpopo, we\u2019re going to do well in the Eastern Cape, we\u2019re going to do well in the Free State and we are doing relatively well in the North West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | MK Party makes strong early showing in KZN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BHNGbxrOY60?si=gZYIpfY0nH5e46XQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 4px !important; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has reacted with shock to the gains made by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party in KwaZulu-Natal. Despite this, Mantashe remains confident that the ANC will perform better in other provinces. Currently, the MK party has surpassed the ANC, the IFP, and the EFF in KZN. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,617,1355,440,708,2052,974,1991],"class_list":["post-967534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-eff","tag-gwede-mantashe","tag-ifp","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-may-29-elections","tag-mk-party","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967534","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=967534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}