{"id":3056,"date":"2022-10-14T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2022-10-14T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:34:42","slug":"power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"POWER PLAY, PART ONE: Prepare for a political roller coaster ride as parties jostle for positions in municipal coalitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power has changed hands in a quarter of the metros since the 31 October local elections. Now, South Africans are heading for an even wilder ride than witnessed between 2016 and 2021&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2022-10-04-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power has changed hands in a quarter of the metros since the 31 October local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions.jpg",1280,649,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-300x152.jpg",300,152,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-768x389.jpg",640,324,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-1024x519.jpg",640,324,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions.jpg",1280,649,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions.jpg",1280,649,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-1024x519.jpg",1024,519,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3056-power-play-part-one-prepare-for-a-political-roller-coaster-ride-as-parties-jostle-for-positions-in-municipal-coalitions-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\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}