{"id":5808,"date":"2008-11-01T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-29T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:44:13","slug":"communications-dg-leaves-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/5808-communications-dg-leaves-anc.html","title":{"rendered":"Communications DG leaves ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications DG Lyndall Shope-Mafole has announced that she has resigned from the ruling African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p>FMTech reports that Shope-Mafole tendered her resignation in a letter to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, but added that she is keen to remain on as Communications DG until 2010 when her contract expires.<\/p>\n<p>It is however unlikely that the ruling party will keep a potential ANC dissident in a key position like Communications Director General.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=143256\"><strong>Lyndall Shope-Mafole &#8211; give your views<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Director General Lyndall Shope-Mafole has quit the ANC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808"}],"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=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}