{"id":750933,"date":"2022-01-15T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/a-tough-test-of-political-dexterity\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:02:53","slug":"a-tough-test-of-political-dexterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/a-tough-test-of-political-dexterity\/","title":{"rendered":"A tough test of political dexterity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bheki Mngomezulu The first State of the Nation Address (Sona) for 2022 will pose a challenge to President Cyril Ramaphosa. It will be a test to his political leadership dexterity, which has been under scrutiny in various contexts. I will reflect on some of the issues which should find expression in the president\u2019s address [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bheki Mngomezulu The first State of the Nation Address (Sona) for 2022 will pose a challenge to President Cyril Ramaphosa. It will be a test to his political leadership dexterity, which has been under scrutiny in various contexts. I will reflect on some of the issues which should find expression in the president\u2019s address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750933","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=750933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}