{"id":188093,"date":"2025-01-07T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mondlane-postpones-spearhead-calls-for-fresh-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:23:40","slug":"mozambique-mondlane-postpones-spearhead-calls-for-fresh-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mondlane-postpones-spearhead-calls-for-fresh-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Mondlane Postpones &#8216;Spearhead&#8217;, Calls for Fresh Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s former presidential candidate, Venancio Mondlane, has called off a further round of unrest, which he had labelled his &#8220;spearhead&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In his latest broadcast from his hideout somewhere in Europe, on Sunday night, Mondlane said he had received a request to delay the &#8220;spearhead&#8217; by five days, so that international organisations &#8220;can investigate crimes in Mozambique&#8217;, and the country can be resupplied with food, fuel, and other essentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Instead of organising protests, Mondlane&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412310089.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>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s former presidential candidate, Venancio Mondlane, has called off a further round of unrest, which he had labelled his &#8220;spearhead&#8217;. In his latest broadcast from his hideout somewhere in Europe, on Sunday night, Mondlane said he had received a request to delay the &#8220;spearhead&#8217; by five days, so that international organisations &#8220;can investigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660671:d64b25b26278f7e612fe50c96307d28c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6137,821,8936,16741,4704,682,257,15235,254,13312],"class_list":["post-188093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-elections","tag-fresh","tag-mondlane","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-postpones","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spearhead"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660671:d64b25b26278f7e612fe50c96307d28c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188093","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=188093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}