{"id":83755,"date":"2023-07-20T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=83755"},"modified":"2023-07-20T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:45:29","slug":"letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=83755","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the DM168 editor: Journey into the hearts of darkness \u2013 the ANC, Eskom and the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week DM168 delves into the politics of the power struggle, both past and present, that have led us to Stage 7 and 8 blackouts. And as a teaser for Daily Maverick\u2019s Earth Edition Gathering next week, we have compiled a fascinating 20-page Earth Edition supplement for you&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-05-20-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week DM168 delves into the politics of the power struggle, both past and present,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83755","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\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past.jpeg",1280,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-300x150.jpeg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-768x384.jpeg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-1024x512.jpeg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past.jpeg",1280,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past.jpeg",1280,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-1024x512.jpeg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/83755-letter-from-the-dm168-editor-journey-into-the-hearts-of-darkness-the-anc-eskom-and-the-past-590x410.jpeg",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\/83755","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=83755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}