{"id":217693,"date":"2026-04-06T01:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217693"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:48:43","slug":"south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217693","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: State of the Nation in the Shadow of the Water Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Maverick] A year after bold promises, Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s weak spots are clear: taps and safety. The rest of the Cabinet tells a better story&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120155.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Maverick] A year after bold promises, Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s weak spots are clear: taps and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker.jpg",1200,735,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-768x470.jpg",640,392,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-1024x627.jpg",640,392,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker.jpg",1200,735,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker.jpg",1200,735,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-1024x627.jpg",1024,627,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217693-south-africa-state-of-the-nation-in-the-shadow-of-the-water-tanker-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\/217693","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=217693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}