{"id":968185,"date":"2024-06-25T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968185"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:22:15","slug":"kodwa-mk-party-members-sworn-in-as-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/kodwa-mk-party-members-sworn-in-as-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodwa, MK Party members sworn in as MPs"},"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>Corruption-accused and former Sports, Arts and Culture minister Zizi Kodwa has been sworn in as member of Parliament for the African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight members of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party have also been sworn in, after not attending the ceremony on June 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mk-party-members-being-registered-ahead-of-swearing-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earlier, Kodwa and MK Party members registered on the Parliamentary system.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acting Western Cape High Court Judge President Patricia Goliath presided over the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Members were sworn in in batches of five.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who were called to swear allegiance to the Republic, was Duduzile Zuma, former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>MPs were called by Secretary to Parliament Xolile George.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\u00a0VIDEO: Swearing in of MK Party MPs:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BU3FIJAwzX4?si=2Va-uS-FNZmZosKS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Corruption-accused and former Sports, Arts and Culture minister Zizi Kodwa has been sworn in as member of Parliament for the African National Congress (ANC). Fifty-eight members of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party have also been sworn in, after not attending the ceremony on June 14. Earlier, Kodwa and MK Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":968186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,974,3115,2472],"class_list":["post-968185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-mk-party","tag-western-cape-high-court-judge-president-patricia-goliath","tag-zizi-kodwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968185","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}