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Angola’s president, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, appears to have found the formula for perfect competition. Seeking another term as leader of the MPLA, Angola’s ruling party, he is running against himself. Victory is assured before a vote is cast. All that remains is to convince the country that the absence of opponents proves the winner’s greatness. In fact, it reveals his profound weakness. Louren\u00e7o will march from victory to victory until his final defeat.<\/p>\n
Today, 11 November, Angola marks 51 years of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Angola’s president, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, appears to have found the formula for perfect competition. Seeking another term as leader of the MPLA, Angola’s ruling party, he is running against himself. Victory is assured before a vote is cast. All that remains is to convince the country that the absence of opponents proves the winner’s greatness. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249954,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,13368,6143,14020,257,4672,254,55826],"class_list":["post-249953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-closing","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-valves"],"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\/249953","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=249953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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