{"id":24589,"date":"2019-05-18T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24589"},"modified":"2019-05-18T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T11:32:54","slug":"where-now-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24589","title":{"rendered":"Where now for South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa has just had its sixth democratic general election and once more the African National Congress (ANC) won &#8211; but with a reduced share of the vote and a lower number of seats in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyril Ramaphosa became president a year ago and faces formidable problems in reforming the ANC and reviving the country&#8217;s economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s economy grew just 0.8% in 2018 and official unemployment hovers around 27% \u2013 and is over 50% among young people. Many voters were angry at failing services, high crime levels and a failure to act against corrupt officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read my updated guide to the South African political system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthAfricanpoliticalsystem\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has just had its sixth democratic general election and once more the African National Congress (ANC) won &#8211; but with a reduced share of the vote and a lower number of seats in the National Assembly. Cyril Ramaphosa became president a year ago and faces formidable problems in reforming the ANC and reviving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24593,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589\/revisions\/24593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}