{"id":33608,"date":"2023-02-06T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=33608"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:45:15","slug":"guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=33608","title":{"rendered":"GUEST ESSAY: Dear South Africa, we are on our own \u2013 let\u2019s be extra vigilant as we chart a new future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis South Africa is in is a golden opportunity to define the country\u2019s progressive politics anew, ditching the old ideological dogmas whose preoccupation is contestation to defeat the other at the expense of progress on issues where there is broad social agreement. Here\u2019s what we must pay urgent attention to&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2022-12-04-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis South Africa is in is a golden opportunity to define the country\u2019s progressive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future.jpg",1280,658,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-300x154.jpg",300,154,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-768x395.jpg",640,329,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-1024x526.jpg",640,329,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future.jpg",1280,658,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future.jpg",1280,658,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-1024x526.jpg",1024,526,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/33608-guest-essay-dear-south-africa-we-are-on-our-own-lets-be-extra-vigilant-as-we-chart-a-new-future-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\/33608","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=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}