{"id":166130,"date":"2025-08-01T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166130"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:17:48","slug":"opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166130","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: President Ramaphosa only finds his voice when faced with easy targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No National Dialogue will help the President grow a spine to do what is needed, no National Dialogue will convince South Africans that we have a President who is willing to expend his political capital (such as it is) in the interests of the country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2025-07-10-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No National Dialogue will help the President grow a spine to do what is needed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets-300x257.jpg",300,257,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166130-opinionista-president-ramaphosa-only-finds-his-voice-when-faced-with-easy-targets-500x410.jpg",500,410,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\/166130","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=166130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}