{"id":130779,"date":"2023-12-25T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130779"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:45:18","slug":"opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit-even-in-sa-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130779","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: Can intellect, dedication and integrity trump ignorance, indifference and deceit \u2013 even in SA politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in all democracies, South Africa has both good and bad politicians. For the past 20 years or so, the majority of our electorate have consistently chosen bad politicians to govern our nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2023-12-20-sa-politics-what-hope-for-intellect-dedication-integrity\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in all democracies, South Africa has both good and bad politicians. For the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7",1000,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7-150x150.",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7-300x300.",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7-768x768.",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7",1000,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7",1000,1000,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7",1000,1000,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7-825x575.",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130779-opinionista-can-intellect-dedication-and-integrity-trump-ignorance-indifference-and-deceit65899583e5ab7-590x410.",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}