{"id":968177,"date":"2024-06-24T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968177"},"modified":"2024-06-24T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T07:42:20","slug":"south-africas-hopes-pinned-on-gnu-success-ramaphosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/south-africas-hopes-pinned-on-gnu-success-ramaphosa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s hopes pinned on GNU success: Ramaphosa"},"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>President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country\u2019s hopes are pinned on the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/ramaphosa-commits-to-working-with-all-parties-on-national-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writing in his weekly letter to the nation today, the President says the commitment by political parties to work together has generated a great deal of goodwill that should not be squandered.<\/p>\n<p>He says the success of the GNU will be measured by the extent to which parties are prepared to focus- not on who will govern- but on how the country will be governed in the interests of the people.<\/p>\n<p>The President says he is encouraged by the fact that there is broad consensus among the parties on the priorities of the incoming administration.<\/p>\n<p>He says this gives hope that the GNU will indeed take the country forward.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa says emanating from the priorities outlined in the Statement of Intent, the parties will further refine the GNU\u2019s programme.<\/p>\n<p>He adds they need to demonstrate they have a clear, coherent and sustainable programme and their collaboration is genuine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The country\u2019s hopes are pinned on the success of the GNU. Our stated commitment to work together constructively and for South Africa\u2019s benefit has generated a great deal of goodwill that we should not squander. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jSbiZVaL4x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/jSbiZVaL4x<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dqbGHlUjRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/dqbGHlUjRA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cyril Ramaphosa   (@CyrilRamaphosa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrilRamaphosa\/status\/1805111878688919808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country\u2019s hopes are pinned on the success of the Government of National Unity (GNU). Writing in his weekly letter to the nation today, the President says the commitment by political parties to work together has generated a great deal of goodwill that should not be squandered. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":968178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[321,310,2010],"class_list":["post-968177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968177","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}