{"id":228585,"date":"2026-05-27T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228585"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:54:41","slug":"da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=228585","title":{"rendered":"DA leadership contest in KZN pits Ngema against Billy before 2026 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance is set to elect new leadership in KwaZulu-Natal this weekend, in a closely watched provincial congress that will shape the party\u2019s strategy before the 2026 municipal elections amid rising coalition politics and the growing influence of the MK Party&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/politics\/2026-05-08-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance is set to elect new leadership in KwaZulu-Natal this weekend, in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls-300x237.jpg",300,237,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls.jpg",592,467,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/228585-da-leadership-contest-in-kzn-pits-ngema-against-billy-before-2026-polls-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\/228585","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=228585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}