{"id":182259,"date":"2024-10-10T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-sadc-braces-for-last-lap-of-elections-this-year-as-mozambique-goes-to-the-polls-today\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:32:21","slug":"southern-africa-sadc-braces-for-last-lap-of-elections-this-year-as-mozambique-goes-to-the-polls-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-sadc-braces-for-last-lap-of-elections-this-year-as-mozambique-goes-to-the-polls-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: SADC Braces for Last Lap of Elections This Year . . . As Mozambique Goes to the Polls Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Four more elections are to be held in SADC before the year ends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Elections are due in Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Mauritius.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Touted as the biggest election year in human history, 2024 has had half of the world&#8217;s population &#8212; some 3.7 billion people having the opportunity to vote in 72 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">From South Africa to the South Pacific, to Europe and the Americas, the stakes were immense. Voters have had their say in local and national elections and directly impacted the political, social and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410100408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more elections are to be held in SADC before the year ends. Elections are due in Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Mauritius. Touted as the biggest election year in human history, 2024 has had half of the world&#8217;s population &#8212; some 3.7 billion people having the opportunity to vote in 72 countries. From South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,22346,821,18628,4704,682,257,8059,1412,254,7153,6637,6537],"class_list":["post-182259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-braces","tag-elections","tag-lap","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-today","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}