{"id":879336,"date":"2025-12-20T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/sacps-election-gambit-sets-stage-for-crucial-anc-showdown\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:26:21","slug":"sacps-election-gambit-sets-stage-for-crucial-anc-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/sacps-election-gambit-sets-stage-for-crucial-anc-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SACP\u2019s election gambit sets stage for crucial ANC showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial bilateral meeting between the ANC and the SACP on Monday is expected to be dominated by the political firestorm surrounding the communists\u2019 decision to contest the 2026 local elections independently, a move that threatens to shatter the decades-old tripartite alliance. The engagement, described officially as a routine meeting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/politics\/sacps-election-gambit-sets-stage-for-crucial-anc-showdown\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sacps-election-gambit-sets-stage-for-crucial-anc-showdown\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Setumo Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial bilateral meeting between the ANC and the SACP on Monday is expected to be dominated by the political firestorm surrounding the communists\u2019 decision to contest the 2026 local elections independently, a move that threatens to shatter the decades-old tripartite alliance. The engagement, described officially as a routine meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,146912,192],"tags":[7805,146911],"class_list":{"0":"post-879336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-election","8":"category-sacps","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-sacps"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879336","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=879336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}