{"id":178609,"date":"2025-09-24T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=178609"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:16:03","slug":"name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=178609","title":{"rendered":"Name-change meeting takes political turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A moratorium on politics at the start of a stakeholder meeting on proposed name changes in Ndlambe on Wednesday September 10 fell on deaf ears as politicians and their proxies dominated the discussion. It was with a bolstered team that Eastern Cape Geographical Names Committee (ECGNC) chairperson Christian Martin arrived&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkofthetown.co.za\/2025\/09\/18\/name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moratorium on politics at the start of a stakeholder meeting on proposed name changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn.jpg",640,427,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/178609-name-change-meeting-takes-political-turn-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\/178609","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=178609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}