{"id":92343,"date":"2025-11-03T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbeki-calls-for-overhaul-of-process-to-elect-sas-president"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:54:00","slug":"mbeki-calls-for-overhaul-of-process-to-elect-sas-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbeki-calls-for-overhaul-of-process-to-elect-sas-president","title":{"rendered":"Mbeki calls for overhaul of process to elect SA\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Former President Thabo Mbeki has called for an overhaul of the process to elect the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeki delivered a keynote address at the Eastern Cape Higher Education Sector National Dialogue launch at Nelson Mandela University over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>South African voters don\u2019t directly vote for the president at the general elections but elect for political parties to fill 400 seats at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The president is then voted in by a majority of members of Parliament (MPs) in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>But Mbeki said this doesn\u2019t take into account competencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we must make sure that the person who becomes president must be competent to carry out all of the tasks which are detailed in the Constitution. When Parliament said I must become president, they had not the slightest clue of what I was capable of doing and they never asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mbeki added that the National Dialogue must grapple with this among other issues on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things they must say in the National Dialogue, the intelligentsia, we have to change the manner in which we choose our president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Former President Thabo Mbeki has called for an overhaul of the process to elect the country\u2019s president. Mbeki delivered a keynote address at the Eastern Cape Higher Education Sector National Dialogue launch at Nelson Mandela University over the weekend. 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