{"id":203241,"date":"2025-07-25T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-a-view-from-afar-a-plea-for-statesmanship-beyond-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:44:54","slug":"zambia-a-view-from-afar-a-plea-for-statesmanship-beyond-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-a-view-from-afar-a-plea-for-statesmanship-beyond-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: A view from AFAR: A Plea for Statesmanship Beyond Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Your Excellency,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">As an observer of Southern Africa\u2019s political landscape, I write with deep admiration for the transformative leadership you have demonstrated since assuming office. Your commitment to democratic values, reconciliation, and the rule of law has been a beacon of hope in a region where many nations struggle with polarization and retributive politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The ongoing discourse surrounding the burial of former President Edgar Lungu presents another pivotal moment for your leadership. How&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250140.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Excellency, As an observer of Southern Africa\u2019s political landscape, I write with deep admiration for the transformative leadership you have demonstrated since assuming office. Your commitment to democratic values, reconciliation, and the rule of law has been a beacon of hope in a region where many nations struggle with polarization and retributive politics. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[4788,258,256,8490,257,11062,254,41490,10098,4709,881],"class_list":["post-203241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afar","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borders","tag-news","tag-plea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statesmanship","tag-view","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/203241","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=203241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}