{"id":877084,"date":"2025-10-12T00:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/saving-sa-op-ed-taking-back-our-dreams-and-our-country-why-the-national-dialogue-is-the-only-way-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:21:16","slug":"saving-sa-op-ed-taking-back-our-dreams-and-our-country-why-the-national-dialogue-is-the-only-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/saving-sa-op-ed-taking-back-our-dreams-and-our-country-why-the-national-dialogue-is-the-only-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVING SA OP-ED: Taking back our dreams and our country \u2014 why the National Dialogue is the only way forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Nelson Mandela\u2019s 1994 promise of a \u2018triumph in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people\u2019 has begun to sound like a farce, now is the time for ordinary South Africans to ask the ruling classes to stop the charade&#8230; Augustine Center<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2025-09-21-national-dialogue-is-the-only-way-forward\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Nelson Mandela\u2019s 1994 promise of a \u2018triumph in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people\u2019 has begun to sound like a farce, now is the time for ordinary South Africans to ask the ruling classes to stop the charade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26054,3159],"tags":[44516,12252],"class_list":{"0":"post-877084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-op-ed","8":"category-saving","9":"tag-op-ed","10":"tag-saving"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}