{"id":967866,"date":"2024-06-02T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967866"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:55:49","slug":"eersterust-community-swings-majority-votes-to-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/eersterust-community-swings-majority-votes-to-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Eersterust community swings majority votes to PA"},"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>For the first time since 1994, the people in Eersterust in Tshwane, Gauteng have swung their vote to a different political party.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA) has been receiving the majority votes since 1994 in the area but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/945578-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Patriotic Alliance (PA) has made serious inroads<\/a>, taking the bulk of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The PA\u2019s Veronica Marian explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a welcome change and it\u2019s a good change and finally our people realised that we can not go on like this. 90% of them have voted PA. Finally the people have decided enough is enough and for 35-years we\u2019ve been held by the DA and now we can see and we hope to see that the change will be eminent as soon as the counting is over and the work begins. Because actually from the first day after the voting the work starts now for 2026. I want to emphasise on the youth today, make your voice count because you are the future leaders of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eersterust locals say their hope is for better opportunities, especially for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you can see how untidy this place is. People don\u2019t clean the place. The municipality is there but we don\u2019t see them cleaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if you don\u2019t deliver, you don\u2019t get support and that\u2019s what happening and people realise about what\u2019s going on. And they lie to people about service delivery and job creation and you can see around here there\u2019s many kids who don\u2019t work and what do they turn to? Drugs, stealing, house breaking and that\u2019s common here in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes For the first time since 1994, the people in Eersterust in Tshwane, Gauteng have swung their vote to a different political party. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has been receiving the majority votes since 1994 in the area but the Patriotic Alliance (PA) has made serious inroads, taking the bulk of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[234,339,410,222],"class_list":["post-967866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-pa","tag-patriotic-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967866","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=967866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}