{"id":967908,"date":"2024-06-04T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967908"},"modified":"2024-06-04T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:27:55","slug":"amazulu-king-lauds-iec-for-free-fair-and-credible-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/amazulu-king-lauds-iec-for-free-fair-and-credible-election\/","title":{"rendered":"AmaZulu King lauds IEC for free, fair and credible election"},"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>AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has lauded the Electoral Commission for ensuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-can-draw-lessons-from-the-2024-national-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free, fair, and credible election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite some political parties including the MK Party, led by former President Jacob Zuma, expressing dissatisfaction with the outcome of the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Political parties have started discussions on forming coalitions because there\u2019s no outright winner in this year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Traditional Prime Minister of the Zulu monarch, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, says the King commends all political parties for the peaceful manner in which they conducted themselves during the campaign and on election day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Election Results Announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cYm4loDw1FM?si=DUkHhzI7xMFpVgIy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has lauded the Electoral Commission for ensuring a free, fair, and credible election. This is despite some political parties including the MK Party, led by former President Jacob Zuma, expressing dissatisfaction with the outcome of the elections. Political parties have started discussions on forming coalitions because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3006,1098,974,3007,3008],"class_list":["post-967908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazulu-king-misuzulu-kazwelithini","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mk-party","tag-thulasizwe-buthelezi","tag-traditional-prime-minister-of-the-zulu-monarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967908","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=967908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}