{"id":8474,"date":"2013-08-05T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:14:52","slug":"pieter-mulder-asks-for-parliamentary-debate-on-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"Pieter Mulder asks for parliamentary debate on affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pieter_mulder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8476\" alt=\"pieter_mulder\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pieter_mulder-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pieter_mulder-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pieter_mulder.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Pieter Mulder, leader of the Freedom Front Plus, yesterday asked for an urgent parliamentary debate on affirmative action to be held in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Dr. Mulder, affirmative action is the basis of the South African government\u2019s policy initiatives to correct inequalities in the country\u2019s community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dissatisfaction regarding the controversial policy has however spread to such an extent that it is at present the subject of intense discussions and even court cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have for these reasons requested that a parliamentary debate on affirmative action, and in particular about the manner in which the department of correctional services enforces it, is held as soon as possible as a matter of national importance,\u201d Dr. Mulder says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Pieter Mulder, leader of the Freedom Front Plus, yesterday asked for an urgent parliamentary debate on affirmative action to be held in Parliament. According to Dr. Mulder, affirmative action is the basis of the South African government\u2019s policy initiatives to correct inequalities in the country\u2019s community. Dissatisfaction regarding the controversial policy has however spread &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pieter Mulder asks for parliamentary debate on affirmative action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[356,1576,316,3251,131],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-affirmative-action","tag-debate","tag-freedom-front-plus","tag-parliament","tag-pieter-mulder"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pieter_mulder.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8477,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}