{"id":82844,"date":"2023-07-18T01:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=82844"},"modified":"2023-07-18T01:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:45:19","slug":"outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=82844","title":{"rendered":"Outdated dominant party model must make way for politics of merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandile Swana In 1994, Nelson Mandela\u2019s ANC won a simple majority of 62.65%, although the overall participation was recorded at 77.3%. Within 10 years, former president Thabo Mbeki led the ruling party to a record-setting 69.69% election victory, exceeding the two-thirds majority. That was not based on his popularity but an unambiguous demonstration of [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/politics\/outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandile Swana In 1994, Nelson Mandela\u2019s ANC won a simple majority of 62.65%, although<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit.jpg",886,589,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit.jpg",640,425,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit.jpg",886,589,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit.jpg",886,589,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit.jpg",886,589,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/82844-outdated-dominant-party-model-must-make-way-for-politics-of-merit-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\/82844","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=82844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}