{"id":48492,"date":"2026-04-12T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48492"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:53:12","slug":"cogta-says-it-has-no-authority-to-probe-ethekwinis-r22-million-mandela-and-tambo-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48492","title":{"rendered":"Cogta says it has no authority to probe eThekwini\u2019s R22 million Mandela and Tambo statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) clarifies its lack of authority to investigate eThekwini Municipality\u2019s R22 million expenditure on statues, amidst outcry over service delivery issues.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/2026-04-12-cogta-says-it-has-no-authority-to-probe-ethekwinis-r22-million-mandela-and-tambo-statues\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) clarifies its lack of authority to investigate eThekwini Municipality\u2019s R22 million expenditure on statues, amidst outcry over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48492","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\/48492","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=48492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}