{"id":236113,"date":"2026-06-12T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mpla-describes-manuel-augusto-a-distinguished-son-of-angola\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:33:15","slug":"angola-mpla-describes-manuel-augusto-a-distinguished-son-of-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mpla-describes-manuel-augusto-a-distinguished-son-of-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: MPLA Describes Manuel Augusto a Distinguished Son of Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Luanda \u2014 The Political Bureau of the MPLA Central Committee described Manuel Domingos Augusto on Friday as one of Angola&#8217;s most distinguished sons, and highlighted his political and diplomatic career in the service of the country and the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The statement is contained in a message of condolence issued following the death of the Political Bureau&#8217;s Secretary for International Relations, who passed away in Luanda after a period of illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">According to the MPLA, Manuel Augusto was part of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080567.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 The Political Bureau of the MPLA Central Committee described Manuel Domingos Augusto on Friday as one of Angola&#8217;s most distinguished sons, and highlighted his political and diplomatic career in the service of the country and the party. The statement is contained in a message of condolence issued following the death of the Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236114,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,22225,15609,15225,16652,8975,257,10619,254],"class_list":["post-236113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-augusto","tag-describes","tag-distinguished","tag-manuel","tag-mpla","tag-news","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/236113","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=236113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}