{"id":133996,"date":"2016-08-22T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=133996"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:57:30","slug":"eff-will-regret-voting-with-da-if-things-go-wrong-parks-tau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/133996\/eff-will-regret-voting-with-da-if-things-go-wrong-parks-tau\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF will regret voting with DA if things go wrong &#8211; Parks Tau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANC mayoral candidate for Johannesburg Parks Tau says, although he accepts the decision taken by the EFF to support a DA candidate, he believes the party made it in bad faith and will regret it\u00a0if progress in the city stalls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t stand in front of people and say this guy has done a good job, the transformation process is on the right track, but because we have an axe to grind, we taking a decision against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tau has already said he would accept the outcomes of Monday&#8217;s sitting, after failing to get a clear majority in the local government elections &#8211; the ANC only managed to get 44.6% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Tau said many people had approached him to point out that the decrease in the popularity of the ANC in the city was an indication of a loss of confidence in the party and not himself as an individual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/eff-will-regret-voting-with-da-if-things-go-wrong-parks-tau-20160822\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on politics<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/133920\/zuma-backers-want-anc-gauteng-leadership-out-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zuma backers want ANC Gauteng leadership out: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/133748\/eff-will-vote-for-mashaba-malema\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EFF will vote for Mashaba: Malema<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/133926\/half-salary-and-no-sedans-for-eff-councillors-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Half salary and no sedans for EFF councillors: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC mayoral candidate for Johannesburg Parks Tau says, although he accepts the decision taken by the EFF to support a DA candidate, he believes the party made it in bad faith and will regret it if progress in the city stalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":122531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-133996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133998,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996\/revisions\/133998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}