{"id":209081,"date":"2017-11-06T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=209081"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:02:50","slug":"ramaphosa-picks-science-and-technology-minister-as-presidential-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/209081\/ramaphosa-picks-science-and-technology-minister-as-presidential-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa picks science and technology minister as presidential running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his running mates at a rally in Sekhukhuneland, Limpopo on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Support comrade Naledi Pandor for deputy president,&#8221; he urged supporters at the #CR17 rally in Tafelkop.<\/p>\n<p>For secretary general, he named former KwaZulu-Natal ANC chairperson Senzo Mchunu, for national chairperson he named current secretary general Gwede Mantashe, and for treasurer general Paul Mashatile, the chairperson of the party in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed that he would build an ANC that is &#8220;stronger&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;renewed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The party goes to its elective conference in December and will vote in the next round of top office bearers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/ramaphosa-announces-pandor-for-deputy-for-cr17-20171105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/201004\/what-will-happen-to-the-rand-if-ramaphosa-or-dlamini-zuma-is-the-next-anc-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What will happen to the rand if Ramaphosa or Dlamini-Zuma is the next ANC president<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his running mates at a rally in Sekhukhuneland, Limpopo on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":67988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209081","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=209081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209085,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209081\/revisions\/209085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}