{"id":5922,"date":"2013-06-24T05:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T05:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2013-06-24T05:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T05:51:41","slug":"agang-to-use-obamas-strategy-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"Agang to use Obama&#8217;s strategy team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/agang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5923\" alt=\"agang\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/agang-300x206.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/agang-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/agang-190x130.png 190w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/agang.png 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The newly-launched political party Agang SA is hoping that the same team which helped US President Barack Obama win in 2008 will help it to do well in next year&#8217;s election, City Press reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agang policy director Mills Soko said the party had appointed the Benenson Strategy Group &#8220;to advise us on elections strategy&#8221;, because it was &#8220;the best we could find&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soko refused to talk about how much it was costing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are costly because they are professionals. They are not doing it for free,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">City Press reported that the group had also done political strategy consulting in Nigeria for former president Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua&#8217;s winning campaign, and in Jamaica, Romania and Croatia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its corporate clients included Tampax, Pfizer, Verizon and JPMorgan Chase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the group&#8217;s website Benenson was described &#8220;an industry leader, which has successfully taken on some of the most complicated political, corporate and advocacy challenges over the past decade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agang SA, led by former activist and businesswoman Mamphela Ramphele, was officially launched as a political party in Pretoria on Saturday. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-launched political party Agang SA is hoping that the same team which helped US President Barack Obama win in 2008 will help it to do well in next year&#8217;s election, City Press reported on Sunday. 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