{"id":181751,"date":"2025-10-10T00:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181751"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:58:06","slug":"anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181751","title":{"rendered":"ANC veteran Mathews Phosa calls for National Dialogue to go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa has thrown his weight behind the National Dialogue, describing it as \u201ca positive development\u201d and \u201ca much-needed oil check\u201d for South Africa after 30 years of democracy. Speaking exclusively to Sunday World, Phosa said the dialogue was an opportunity for the nation to pause&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/politics\/anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa has thrown his weight behind the National Dialogue, describing it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",650,278,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",640,274,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",640,274,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",650,278,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",650,278,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",650,278,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead.jpg",650,278,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181751-anc-veteran-mathews-phosa-calls-for-national-dialogue-to-go-ahead-590x278.jpg",590,278,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\/181751","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=181751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}