{"id":28904,"date":"2019-01-13T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28904"},"modified":"2019-01-13T04:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T04:22:15","slug":"south-africa-ruling-anc-launches-campaign-for-2019-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28904","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Ruling ANC launches campaign for 2019 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.4135021097\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-africa.html\">South Africa<\/a>&#8216;s ruling African National Congress (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/anc.html\">ANC<\/a>) party has launched its election campaign ahead of polls in May amid falling support, internal divisions and a sluggish economy.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC, which has ruled the country since the end of apartheid 25 years ago, suffered a sharp decline in popularity under the scandal-ridden presidency of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/jacob-zuma.html\">Jacob Zuma<\/a>, who was removed last February after nine years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Fahmida Miller has more from the city of Durban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party has launched its election campaign ahead of polls in May amid falling support, internal divisions and a sluggish economy. The ANC, which has ruled the country since the end of apartheid 25 years ago, suffered a sharp decline in popularity under the scandal-ridden presidency of Jacob Zuma,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}