{"id":968143,"date":"2024-06-22T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968143"},"modified":"2024-06-22T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:22:35","slug":"da-welcomes-free-state-premiers-anti-corruption-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-welcomes-free-state-premiers-anti-corruption-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"DA welcomes Free State Premier\u2019s anti-corruption pledge"},"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<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State has lauded newly-elected <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/new-fs-premier-wants-mecs-to-work-on-the-ground-not-in-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for her commitment to prioritising the fight against corruption in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This comes after Letsoha-Mathae <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on Thursday<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> unveiled the names of the nine new members who will serve on the provincial executive council over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Members of the Executive Council as announced by Honourable Premier, Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7thadministration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#7thadministration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeaveNoOneBehind?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeaveNoOneBehind<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fsEXCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#fsEXCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UGd5m6nSOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/UGd5m6nSOk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FS Government (@fsgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fsgov\/status\/1803808581407351279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The DA\u2019s Mangaung caucus chairperson David Masoeu said the party would continue to hold Members of the Executive Council accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe have noted that (Zanele) Sifuba, who was (initially) selected in the legislature as the Speaker has suddenly been removed. (We also note) changes with the deputy speaker and so on. This only makes us believe that the challenges the ANC had in the past, have not gone away. But, we will play our active role in ensuring that the (poor) service delivery and corruption which has plagued this province for a very long time is a thing of the past. We hope the Premier will keep to her promise,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Free State Premier\u2019s executive council criticised<\/div>\n<div><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-g-5a0utL20?si=T6oCUScVkWkBzKG2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State has lauded newly-elected Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae for her commitment to prioritising the fight against corruption in the province. \u00a0This comes after Letsoha-Mathae on Thursday unveiled the names of the nine new members who will serve on the provincial executive council over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[234,339,362],"class_list":["post-968143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-free-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968143","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}