{"id":166327,"date":"2025-08-02T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166327"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:16:30","slug":"opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-risks-to-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166327","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: Principled protest or performative politics? The DA\u2019s budget vote and the real risks to higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the DA wishes to be taken seriously as a party of national leadership, it must learn to distinguish between principled dissent and symbolic sabotage. South Africa needs opposition that strengthens governance, not opposition that undermines service delivery for spectacle&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2025-07-05-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-risks-to-higher-education\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the DA wishes to be taken seriously as a party of national leadership, it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927.jpg",1280,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927.jpg",1280,1280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927.jpg",1280,1280,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166327-opinionista-principled-protest-or-performative-politics-the-das-budget-vote-and-the-real-r688e1dc154927-590x410.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\/166327","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=166327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}