{"id":25525,"date":"2024-06-20T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=25525"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:30:05","slug":"zumas-mk-party-gears-up-to-lead-south-africas-opposition-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/zumas-mk-party-gears-up-to-lead-south-africas-opposition-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma&#8217;s MK Party Gears up to Lead South Africa&#8217;s Opposition Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former South Africa President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s party the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) is gearing up to join an alliance of several opposition parties in what can be seen as a new force in a push to counter the ruling African National Congress and its newly formed alliance in parliament.<br \/>\nZuma&#8217;s MK party will join the likes of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to usher in a new force replacing the historical Democratic Alliance (DA) party that has been in the opposition since 1999 in South African politics.<br \/>\nThe ANC suffered a major shock in this year&#8217;s election after failing to secure the majority numbers in parliament.<br \/>\nRamaphosa had secured his position after garnering majority votes among members of parliament allied to the ANC, the DA and other parties backed his candidacy in parliament last week.<br \/>\nBoth Zuma&#8217;s MK party and Malema&#8217;s EFF have originated from the ANC due to wrangles within the ruling party and the need to address what they term a black South African issue. Both parties blame the ANC for neglecting its black voters and failing to empower them economically.<br \/>\nSouth Africa has been undergoing pressing problems that include some of the world&#8217;s highest levels of unemployment, inequality and violent crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former South Africa President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s party the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) is gearing up to join an alliance of several opposition parties in what can be seen as a new force in a push to counter the ruling African National Congress and its newly formed alliance in parliament. Zuma&#8217;s MK party will join the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25529,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions\/25529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}