{"id":130951,"date":"2023-12-26T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130951"},"modified":"2023-12-26T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T15:44:32","slug":"news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130951","title":{"rendered":"News24 | Mondli Makhanya | Branding political opponents as enemies is lazy and dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final weeks of 2008 were a heady time in South African politics. Significant lieutenants and broad supporters of Thabo Mbeki, who had just been ousted as president, were mobilising for a national convention that would lay the foundation for an alternative\u2026<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/citypress\/columnists\/mondlimakhanya\/mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-20231217\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final weeks of 2008 were a heady time in South African politics. Significant lieutenants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130951","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\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130951-news24-mondli-makhanya-branding-political-opponents-as-enemies-is-lazy-and-dangerous-590x410.jpg",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\/130951","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=130951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}