{"id":968349,"date":"2024-07-04T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T09:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968349"},"modified":"2024-07-04T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T09:35:47","slug":"new-gauteng-cabinet-a-continuation-of-failed-politics-actionsa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/new-gauteng-cabinet-a-continuation-of-failed-politics-actionsa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gauteng cabinet a continuation of failed politics: ActionSA"},"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>ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Caucus leader Funzi Ngobeni says his party believes the new Gauteng Provincial Executive Council announced by Premier Panyaza Lesufi is a continuation of failed politics.<\/p>\n<p>Lesufi unveiled the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/955833-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Council of 10 MECs from various political parties<\/a>\u00a0in Johannesburg yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The council, formed after talks with the Democratic Alliance (DA) collapsed, includes members from the African National Congress (ANC), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the Patriotic Alliance (PA) and RISE Mzansi.<\/p>\n<p>Ngobeni says most of the recycled members of the executive have dismally failed in their previous posts.<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cIf you look at the composition of this executive you\u2019ll actually realise that about seven of these MECs are from a previous administration \u2013 the one that South Africans and the people of Gauteng didn\u2019t give a majority. They failed and that\u2019s why they were punished in the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just changed positions but failed dismally in the positions they were running. Panyaza Lesufi is known for gimmicks, we are worried whether he will really oversee the Community Safety Department under his watch with that type of a track record.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>PODCAST | Interview with ActionSA Gauteng Caucus leader Funzi Ngobeni on SAfm\u2019s First Take programme:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"ActionSA dismisses new Gauteng Provincial Executive Council\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/actionsa-dismisses-new-gauteng-provincial-executiv\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Caucus leader Funzi Ngobeni says his party believes the new Gauteng Provincial Executive Council announced by Premier Panyaza Lesufi is a continuation of failed politics. Lesufi unveiled the Council of 10 MECs from various political parties\u00a0in Johannesburg yesterday. The council, formed after talks with the Democratic Alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":968350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3173,246,234,440,410,248],"class_list":["post-968349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-actionsa-gauteng-provincial-caucus-leader-funzi-ngobeni","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-ifp","tag-pa","tag-panyaza-lesufi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968349","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}