{"id":728631,"date":"2023-11-01T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=728631"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:31:20","slug":"south-africa-has-a-new-public-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/728631\/south-africa-has-a-new-public-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa has a new Public Protector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Advocate Nompilo Kholeka Gcaleka as Public Protector of the Republic of South Africa for a non-renewable term of seven years with effect from 1 November 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President appointed Gcaleka in terms of section 193(4) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and on the recommendation of the National Assembly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President wishes Advocate Gcaleka well in her position and trust that she will serve the people of South Africa with honour and dedication,\u201d the Presidency said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/728577\/new-divorce-laws-for-south-africa-take-big-step-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New divorce laws for South Africa take big step forward<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the dismissal of Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the President has appointed a new Public Protector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":728637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-728631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728631","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728639,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728631\/revisions\/728639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}