{"id":31500,"date":"2013-02-10T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31500"},"modified":"2013-02-11T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:14:35","slug":"presidency-dismisses-pule-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/31500\/presidency-dismisses-pule-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency dismisses Pule report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has dismissed media reports that Communications Minister <a title=\"Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2128-Dina-Pule\">Dina Pule<\/a> could soon lose her job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Presidency has noted the carefully orchestrated rumour published by most Sunday newspapers today that President [Jacob] Zuma is to relieve the Minister of Communications&#8230;of her duties and reshuffle his cabinet,&#8221; Presidency spokesman <a title=\"Mac Maharaj\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7210-Mac-Maharaj\">Mac Maharaj<\/a> said in a statement on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rumour and speculation are mischievous and will not distract government from the main activity this coming week, the State of the Nation Address by the President.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times reported that Pule could lose her job following scandals involving her boyfriend, <a title=\"Phosane Mngqibisa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4594-Phosane-Mngqibisa\">Phosane Mngqibisa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It reported that talk within the <a title=\"African National Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2387-ANC-African-National-Congress\">African National Congress<\/a> and government circles was that Pule will be sacked as part of a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Department of Communications stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Dina Pule to be sacked?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/31481\/pule-to-be-sacked\/\"><strong>Dina Pule to be sacked?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dina Pule\u2019s boyfriend paid R6 million for 4 days: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/31052\/dina-pules-boyfriend-paid-r6-million-for-4-days-report\/\"><strong>Dina Pule\u2019s boyfriend paid R6 million for 4 days: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"How not to blow R102 million\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/52813-how-not-to-blow-r102-million.html\">How not to blow R102 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Overlooking Pule\u2019s shenanigans immoral: IFP\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/31068\/overlooking-pules-shenanigans-immoral-ifp\/\"><strong>Overlooking Pule\u2019s shenanigans immoral: IFP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Communications minister Dina Pule accused of nepotism\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/56563-communications-minister-dina-pule-accused-of-nepotism.html\"><strong>Communications minister Dina Pule accused of nepotism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has dismissed media reports that Communications Minister Dina Pule could soon lose her job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1083,26,83,5151,3120],"class_list":["post-31500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mac-maharaj","tag-sunday-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31539,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500\/revisions\/31539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}