{"id":46774,"date":"2026-04-10T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46774"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:46","slug":"anc-plans-to-headhunt-capable-mayoral-candidates-and-invite-public-nominations-for-2026-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46774","title":{"rendered":"ANC plans to headhunt capable mayoral candidates and invite public nominations for 2026 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>The ANC will headhunt mayoral candidates while also inviting public submissions as part of a revamped selection process ahead of the 2026 local government elections.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/2026-04-10-anc-plans-to-headhunt-capable-mayoral-candidates-and-invite-public-nominations-for-2026-elections\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC will headhunt mayoral candidates while also inviting public submissions as part of a revamped selection process ahead of the 2026 local government elections. Source&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}