{"id":233649,"date":"2018-03-25T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T07:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=233649"},"modified":"2018-03-25T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T07:44:23","slug":"anc-to-discuss-bringing-elections-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/233649\/anc-to-discuss-bringing-elections-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC to discuss bringing elections forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>South Africa\u2019s ruling party, the African National Congress, is discussing the possibility of bringing forward elections set to be held next year, according to three people familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is considering the move amid a wave of positive sentiment following the rise of Cyril Ramaphosa as president of Africa\u2019s most industrialized country.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeded Jacob Zuma, who was pushed out of office early this year by his own party following a string of scandals that roiled financial markets and cost the party votes in a 2016 municipal poll.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa broached the topic of shortening the timeline before elections during a meeting of the party\u2019s National Executive Committee, or NEC, in Cape Town on Friday, according to three officials who requested anonymity because the discussions have not been made public.<\/p>\n<p>The NEC has scheduled a press conference March 25, on the outcome of their meeting. Pule Mabe, an ANC spokesman, didn\u2019t immediately return a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa escaped a third junk rating Friday as Moody\u2019s Investors Service kept its assessment of the nation\u2019s debt unchanged, citing more transparent and predictable policies under Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is experiencing increased investor confidence dubbed \u2018Ramaphoria\u2019 in the wake of his rise to the top post.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/230103\/how-many-south-africans-are-set-to-get-ultra-wealthy-under-ramaphosa-in-the-next-5-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How many South Africans are set to get \u2018ultra-wealthy\u2019 under Ramaphosa in the next 5 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s ruling party, the African National Congress, is discussing the possibility of bringing forward elections set to be held next year, according to three people familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":221605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233649","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\/233649","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233651,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233649\/revisions\/233651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}