{"id":65192,"date":"2024-04-27T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2"},"modified":"2024-04-27T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:36:13","slug":"did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2","title":{"rendered":"Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>As the final stretch for the May 29 election campaign approaches, political parties are coming out guns blazing to convince voters to choose them when they cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC convinced former president Thabo Mbeki to join the campaign trail for the hotly contested elections.Mbeki was seen on Thursday in jubilant spirits exchanging jokes and laughter with Soweto residents as he urged them to choose the governing party.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC&#8217;s announcement that he would campaign for the party came as a surprise to many as Mbeki had been highly critical of the party&#8217;s top leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the ANC tasked its head of elections, former KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli, to convince Mbeki to help the party as it seeks re-election 30 years after taking power.<\/p>\n<p>He has spoken publicly about his disappointment in President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s failure to address socioeconomic issues such as poverty and the government&#8217;s slow pace in combating corruption and arresting those accused of state capture.<\/p>\n<p><b>source:timeslive<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. As the final stretch for the May 29 election campaign approaches, political parties are coming out guns blazing to convince voters to choose them when they cast their ballots. The ANC convinced former president Thabo Mbeki to join the campaign trail for the hotly contested elections.Mbeki was seen on Thursday in jubilant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-65192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"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>Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late? - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the final stretch for the May 29 election campaign approaches, political parties are coming out guns blazing to convi ...\" \/>\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\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the final stretch for the May 29 election campaign approaches, political parties are coming out guns blazing to convi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-27T17:26:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-27T18:36:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/04\/sm_1714230290.77614.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\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\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late?\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-27T17:26:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-27T18:36:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/04\/sm_1714230290.77614.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/did-thabo-mbeki-join-the-election-campaign-trail-too-late-2\",\"name\":\"Did Thabo Mbeki join the election campaign trail too late? 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