{"id":248761,"date":"2026-11-01T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-inside-lourencos-head-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:00:06","slug":"angola-inside-lourencos-head-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-inside-lourencos-head-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Inside Louren\u00e7o&#8217;s Head (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Saviours of Convenience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Higino Carneiro embodies another form of complicity: discovering the system&#8217;s failings only after being sidelined by it. For decades, he belonged to the MPLA elite and helped entrench a culture of obedience and intolerance of dissent. Now, excluded from the contest for the party presidency, he faces the same absence of pluralism that the system has always imposed on others. The machinery became intolerable to him only when it shut him out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The party cites irregularities in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610300078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Saviours of Convenience Higino Carneiro embodies another form of complicity: discovering the system&#8217;s failings only after being sidelined by it. For decades, he belonged to the MPLA elite and helped entrench a culture of obedience and intolerance of dissent. Now, excluded from the contest for the party presidency, he faces the same absence of pluralism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248762,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,24409,257,7140,254],"class_list":["post-248761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-lourencos","tag-news","tag-part","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\/248761","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=248761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}