{"id":138803,"date":"2016-10-03T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=138803"},"modified":"2016-10-03T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T09:57:06","slug":"danny-jordaan-set-to-resign-as-anc-opposition-leader-in-nelson-mandela-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/138803\/danny-jordaan-set-to-resign-as-anc-opposition-leader-in-nelson-mandela-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Jordaan set to resign as ANC leader in Nelson Mandela Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor and current leader of the ANC opposition\u00a0in Nelson Mandela Bay, Danny Jordaan, is set to announce his resignation\u00a0on Monday\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela Bay region ANC spokesperson Gift Ngqondi confirmed that Jordaan would be announcing his resignation as party leader in council at a press conference on Monday afternoon at 14:30.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC Regional Task Team (RTT) announced that Jordaan had been nominated and had accepted the position of leader of the opposition at a press conference just over a month ago, on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan was, however, notably absent from the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is our tried and tested leader. We don\u2019t just select people, we select people on the basis of what they possess,&#8221; Nelson Mandela Bay&#8217;s ANC RTT convener, Vuyani Limba, said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at the time whether Jordaan would remain as head of the opposition for the full five-year term, Limba said this was just speculation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question of full five years is your speculation. When we deploy someone, we deploy for the full period,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the elections, Jordaan has missed all three official sittings of the new municipal council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/breaking-danny-jordaan-to-announce-resignation-20161003\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Danny Jordaan<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/133678\/nelson-mandela-bay-has-a-new-mayor-and-danny-jordaan-is-nowhere-to-be-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nelson Mandela Bay has a new mayor \u2013 and Danny Jordaan is nowhere to be seen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/133536\/da-announces-coalitions-with-smaller-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DA announces coalitions with smaller parties<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132579\/anc-withdraws-nelson-mandela-bay-complaint-saying-we-must-accept-defeat\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ANC withdraws Nelson Mandela Bay complaint saying \u2018we must accept defeat\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor and current leader of the ANC opposition in Nelson Mandela Bay, Danny Jordaan, is set to announce his resignation on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":138805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-138803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138803","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=138803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138809,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138803\/revisions\/138809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}