{"id":153394,"date":"2024-04-15T13:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153394"},"modified":"2024-04-15T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:44:16","slug":"opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153394","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: Many faces on our ballot papers simply have no right to be there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate lists of the political parties contesting the 29 May elections are out now, and if you weren\u2019t convinced about South Africa\u2019s vacuum of moral leadership, the contents of these lists might help you along&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2024-04-01-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate lists of the political parties contesting the 29 May elections are out now,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there.jpg",892,859,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there-300x289.jpg",300,289,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there-768x740.jpg",640,617,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there.jpg",640,616,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there.jpg",892,859,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there.jpg",892,859,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there.jpg",892,859,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153394-opinionista-many-faces-on-our-ballot-papers-simply-have-no-right-to-be-there-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=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153394","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=153394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}