{"id":181813,"date":"2025-10-10T05:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181813"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:58:01","slug":"sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181813","title":{"rendered":"SANDF chief Rudzani Maphanya under fire over Iran remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence and Military Veterans Ministry, led by Minister Angie Motshekga, has distanced itself from remarks by Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) General Rudzani Maphwanya about the supposed solidarity with Iran. Maphwanya further called on Iran and South Africa to forge stronger ties&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/politics\/sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence and Military Veterans Ministry, led by Minister Angie Motshekga, has distanced itself from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181813","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\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",650,642,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks-300x296.jpg",300,296,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",640,632,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",640,632,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",650,642,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",650,642,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks.jpg",650,642,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks-650x575.jpg",650,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181813-sandf-chief-rudzani-maphanya-under-fire-over-iran-remarks-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\/181813","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=181813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}