{"id":3998,"date":"2008-06-03T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-03T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:27:00","slug":"ivy-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/3998-ivy-to-step-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Ivy to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matsepe-Casaburri delivered her budget vote speech today and afterwards confirmed what many observers expected for some time &ndash; that she will step down as Communications Minister after the 2009 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Matsepe-Casaburri was not selected as part of the new ANC NEC and as a strong Mbeki supporter it was rumored that she will not be asked to form part of the &lsquo;new&rsquo; government after the 2009 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister confirmed that she&nbsp;will not be&nbsp;part of the new government and indicated that she will spend her time focusing on non-governmental work.<\/p>\n<p>Matsepe-Casaburri has been Minister of Communications since 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=121388\">Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri &#8211; give your views<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri will step down in 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}