{"id":46883,"date":"2026-02-17T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-the-tide-turned-against-the-leader-of-south-africas-second-biggest-party\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:57:18","slug":"how-the-tide-turned-against-the-leader-of-south-africas-second-biggest-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-the-tide-turned-against-the-leader-of-south-africas-second-biggest-party\/","title":{"rendered":"How the tide turned against the leader of South Africa&#039;s second-biggest party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>John Steenhuisen will not seek re-election as DA leader, leaving the race wide open for a successor.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6209vqv3nlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Steenhuisen will not seek re-election as DA leader, leaving the race wide open for a successor. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46885,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions\/46885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}