{"id":9525,"date":"2013-08-22T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:48:13","slug":"mkhize-resigns-as-kzn-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9525","title":{"rendered":"Mkhize resigns as KZN premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9531\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zweli-mkhize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9531\" alt=\"Zweli Mkhize\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zweli-mkhize-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zweli-mkhize-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zweli-mkhize-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zweli-mkhize.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zweli Mkhize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as premier of the province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANC&#8217;s chairman in the province Senzo Mchunu was sworn in as acting premier by KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Chiman Patel in Durban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mkhize said his tasks as treasurer general of the African National Congress had prompted the decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He praised Mchunu and his colleagues in the KwaZulu-Natal executive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also thanked President Jacob Zuma for his support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mkhize would be based at ANC headquarters Luthuli House in Johannesburg full time as from September 1. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as premier of the province. The ANC&#8217;s chairman in the province Senzo Mchunu was sworn in as acting premier by KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Chiman Patel in Durban. Mkhize said his tasks as treasurer general of the African National Congress had prompted the decision. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mkhize resigns as KZN premier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,166,832,4219,100,5416,5415],"class_list":["post-9525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-luthuli-house","tag-resigned","tag-zweli-mkhize"],"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\/zweli-mkhize.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525","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=9525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9533,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions\/9533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}