{"id":214867,"date":"2026-03-19T01:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214867"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:36","slug":"politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214867","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS: ActionSA councillor defects to DA with 50+ members, calls former party a &#8216;cult&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ActionSA councillor Mandla Nyaqela defects to the DA, bringing over 50 members with him and branding his former party as a \u2018cult\u2019 under tyrannical leadership&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ActionSA councillor Mandla Nyaqela defects to the DA, bringing over 50 members with him and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult.jpg",1809,1129,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-300x187.jpg",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-768x479.jpg",640,399,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-1024x639.jpg",640,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-1536x959.jpg",1536,959,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult.jpg",1809,1129,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-1024x639.jpg",1024,639,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214867-politics-actionsa-councillor-defects-to-da-with-50-members-calls-former-party-a-cult-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\/214867","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=214867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}