{"id":230547,"date":"2026-04-17T03:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-ifp-deepens-historic-zambia-ties-as-it-welcomes-patriotic-front-delegation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:02:38","slug":"south-africa-ifp-deepens-historic-zambia-ties-as-it-welcomes-patriotic-front-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-ifp-deepens-historic-zambia-ties-as-it-welcomes-patriotic-front-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: IFP Deepens Historic Zambia Ties As It Welcomes Patriotic Front Delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has welcomed a high-level delegation from Zambia&#8217;s opposition Patriotic Front, marking a significant moment in strengthening continental solidarity and cooperation among like-minded political formations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The delegation was officially received by the IFP&#8217;s National Chairperson, Hon. Blessed Gwala; Secretary General, Hon. Siphosethu Ngcobo; and General Secretary of Administration, Hon. Mfanje Mbango.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Led by the President of the Patriotic Front and Pomodzi Alliance,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604160095.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>The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has welcomed a high-level delegation from Zambia&#8217;s opposition Patriotic Front, marking a significant moment in strengthening continental solidarity and cooperation among like-minded political formations. The delegation was officially received by the IFP&#8217;s National Chairperson, Hon. Blessed Gwala; Secretary General, Hon. Siphosethu Ngcobo; and General Secretary of Administration, Hon. Mfanje Mbango. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230548,"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":[258,256,9626,6704,12334,13203,54178,257,9148,5069,254,7051,6132,4709,881],"class_list":["post-230547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deepens","tag-delegation","tag-front","tag-historic","tag-ifp","tag-news","tag-patriotic","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-welcomes","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\/230547","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=230547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}