{"id":968276,"date":"2024-07-01T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968276"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:23:16","slug":"gauteng-mecs-announcement-postponed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/gauteng-mecs-announcement-postponed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng MECs announcement postponed again"},"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>For the second time, newly re-elected Gauteng Premier Panyaza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/lesufi-to-probably-follow-national-govt-in-composition-seepe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesufi was unable to announce members of the executive council (MECs) of the provincial legislature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s delays come as negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA) deadlocked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HJyVFEWpYu0?si=ccb_xtMe0BwzWKzT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The DA in the province claimed that they were boycotting the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC in the province says the Premier was ready to announce.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were urged by national leadership to relook the challenges with the DA.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is adamant they will announce its provincial executive by Tuesday, whether or not they reach an agreement with the DA.<\/p>\n<p>ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary Thembinkosi \u201cTK\u201d Nciza says they are not forming a coalition with theDA but they are following a framework of the ANC as adopted in by the ANC\u2019s National Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Nciza says they want other parties to come and participate, he further says Gauteng will form government with or without the DA\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have deadlocked not once with the Democratic Alliance in the province because we don\u2019t believe what they are raising is really reasonable. But, when we start hitting facts the first time, we, the Premier was not contested at the legislature including the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker was agreements according to us, a from here we just deadlocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes For the second time, newly re-elected Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi was unable to announce members of the executive council (MECs) of the provincial legislature. Monday\u2019s delays come as negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA) deadlocked. The DA in the province claimed that they were boycotting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,383],"class_list":["post-968276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-gauteng-premier-panyaza-lesufi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968276","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=968276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}