{"id":168621,"date":"2017-04-05T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=168621"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:21:59","slug":"former-transport-minister-dipuo-peters-quits-as-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/168621\/former-transport-minister-dipuo-peters-quits-as-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former transport minister Dipuo Peters quits as MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former transport minister Dipuo Peters as resigned as a member of parliament, following her removal from the transport portfolio in the most recent cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Peters said that she handed her letter of resignation to president Jacob Zuma and the chief whip of the ANC, and also submitted her reasons for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister said that she was making arrangements to fly to Cuba for a medical procedure, but would not elaborate on that.<\/p>\n<p>She congratulated her successor, Joe Maswanganyi for his appointment to her previous role, and praised president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s cabinet reshuffle for introducing younger leaders into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>She said she left the transport ministry with no regrets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/168547\/head-of-treasury-fuzile-confirms-he-has-resigned\/\">Head of Treasury Fuzile confirms he has resigned<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former transport minister Dipuo Peters as resigned as a member of parliament, following her removal from the transport portfolio in the most recent cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-168621","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\/168621","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168623,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168621\/revisions\/168623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}