{"id":1004491,"date":"2022-02-25T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/calls-were-made-for-the-sa-government-to-halt-the-donation-to-cuba-and-focus-on-local-issues\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T23:36:07","slug":"calls-were-made-for-the-sa-government-to-halt-the-donation-to-cuba-and-focus-on-local-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/calls-were-made-for-the-sa-government-to-halt-the-donation-to-cuba-and-focus-on-local-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls were made for the SA government to halt the donation to Cuba and focus on local issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article>\n<p>There is a coalition that is made of more than 60 NPOs which deals with hunger relief that made a delivery of a petition meant to block a donation of R50-million to Cuba . The petition was reportedly made to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation , with the aim of making the government divert the money towards solving the hunger problems in South Africa .<\/p>\n<p>The petition is reported to have had more than 16000 signatories , hence the call for the government to look at the hunger issues affecting South Africa .South Africa reportedly offered to assist Cuba as it is affected by food problems as a result of the sanctions that were imposed on it by the United States of America .The coalition hopes that it will get the response from the department within seven days . The petition was reportedly received by the acting director general , Mr Clayson Monyela .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/pretoria-news\/news\/call-for-sa-to-halt-r50m-cuban-donation-deal-with-domestic-hunger-issues-9e955aec-1693-42ea-a535-0afec80eb594<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Kukizi (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nClayson Monyela<br \/>NPOs<br \/>SA<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a coalition that is made of more than 60 NPOs which deals with hunger relief that made a delivery of a petition meant to block a donation of R50-million to Cuba . The petition was reportedly made to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation , with the aim of making the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}