{"id":968193,"date":"2024-06-26T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968193"},"modified":"2024-06-26T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T04:42:12","slug":"i-serve-at-the-behest-of-the-anc-kodwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/i-serve-at-the-behest-of-the-anc-kodwa\/","title":{"rendered":"I serve at the behest of the ANC: Kodwa"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/kodwa-mk-party-members-sworn-in-as-mps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newly sworn-in<\/a> National Assembly member for the African National Congress (ANC) Zizi Kodwa insists that he serves at the behest of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He was among those sworn in yesterday, including 58 MPs from the uMkhonto weSizwe Party.<\/p>\n<p>Kodwa resigned as Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture and member of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) about two weeks ago, following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/kodwa-co-accused-appear-in-court-on-corruption-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his appearance in court on allegations of corruption.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He says he is serving as a member of the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe list of the party has been certified. I am on that list. You are expected as a member on the list to be sworn in, that is why I am here today (June 26, 2024),\u201d adds Kodwa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | More on the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJReV-AMYX0?si=7YyNhahzFreVVd3W\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Newly sworn-in National Assembly member for the African National Congress (ANC) Zizi Kodwa insists that he serves at the behest of the party. He was among those sworn in yesterday, including 58 MPs from the uMkhonto weSizwe Party. Kodwa resigned as Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture and member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":968194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,3117,1786,2472],"class_list":["post-968193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-anc-national-executive-committee-nec","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe-party","tag-zizi-kodwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968193","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=968193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}