{"id":6498,"date":"2013-07-01T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2013-07-01T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:03:12","slug":"all-the-animals-even-fish-vote-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6498","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;All the animals, even fish vote ANC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6499\" alt=\"Ngoako Ramatlhodi\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngoako Ramatlhodi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given a chance, fish and animals from the Kruger National Park would vote for the ANC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANC enjoys mass support \u2013 even among animals \u2013 more than all opposition parties combined, according to the ANC\u2019s national head of elections, Ngoako Ramatlhodi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a rally in Polokwane on Sunday, Ramatlhodi \u2013 who is also deputy minister of correctional services \u2013 took a swipe at the DA, Cope and Agang SA, likening them to \u201ca three-headed serpent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reference to Julius Malema\u2019s mooted political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, the former Limpopo premier said the \u201cstillborn\u201d party would die a natural death like Cope had.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He implied that the DA was the home of apartheid government remnants. \u201cIn a sense we are managing a white man\u2019s economy on behalf of white men who ran the economy under apartheid, but they have changed in form, not in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramatlhodi referred to this arrangement as \u201cthe system\u201d that had become arrogant and confident after the ANC wrested power in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd we see elements of that confidence played out by organisations such as the DA, claiming our history, expropriating our symbols, claiming to own our heroes, even our own Nelson Mandela,\u201d said Ramatlhodi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEven the fish, I am told when the time comes, they vote for the ANC from the sea. If animals at Kruger National were allowed to vote, they would be voting the ANC,\u201d he said.- IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given a chance, fish and animals from the Kruger National Park would vote for the ANC. The ANC enjoys mass support \u2013 even among animals \u2013 more than all opposition parties combined, according to the ANC\u2019s national head of elections, Ngoako Ramatlhodi. &nbsp; Addressing a rally in Polokwane on Sunday, Ramatlhodi \u2013 who is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;All the animals, even fish vote ANC&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,3627,3626],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-fish-vote-anc","tag-ngoako-ramatlhodi"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ramatlhodi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6501,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/6501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}