{"id":21333,"date":"2023-02-03T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya"},"modified":"2023-02-03T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T11:02:40","slug":"deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","title":{"rendered":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead of the Tinkhundla elections.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Eswatini Broadcasting and Information Services(EBIS) on Thursday,the DPM said personally,he supports and stand with those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debate on social media about the elections is healthy and democratic,personally,I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d. The right to vote is fundamental and I remember even going to court to demand my right to vote,\u201d said the DPM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead of the Tinkhundla elections. Speaking to the Eswatini Broadcasting and Information Services(EBIS) on Thursday,the DPM said personally,he supports and stand with those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d. \u201cThe debate on social media about the elections is healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-21333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\"},\"wordCount\":112,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\",\"name\":\"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d - Eswatini\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg\",\"width\":960,\"height\":640,\"caption\":\"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\",\"name\":\"Eswatini\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d - Eswatini","description":"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d","og_description":"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","og_site_name":"Eswatini","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d","datePublished":"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya"},"wordCount":112,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Eswatini","Eswatini"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya","name":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d - Eswatini","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-03T09:06:01+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-03T11:02:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Senator Themba Masuku, the Deputy Prime Minister says as government,they are following the social media debate ahead ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675402642.86.jpg","width":960,"height":640,"caption":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/deputy-prime-minister-on-tinkhundla-undemocratic-elections-i-support-those-who-say-siyaya#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON TINKHUNDLA UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS: I support those who say \u201cSiyaya\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/","name":"Eswatini","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}