{"id":5019,"date":"2014-08-28T18:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:34:09","slug":"zambia-president-sata-to-open-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-president-sata-to-open-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia President Sata to Open Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s President Michael Sata plans to address the nation next month as he officially open parliament, a move intended to contradict reports that his health has led to a power struggle within the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party.<\/p>\n<p>Sata was last seen in public on June 19 when he met visiting Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao.<\/p>\n<p>Some opposition and civil society groups have demanded the government come clean on the president\u2019s health, saying that Sata\u2019s recent \u201cworking vacation\u201d trip to Israel was to seek medical attention. They also contend that the fact that Vice President Guy Scott represented Sata at the recent U.S.-Africa Summit in Washington, D.C. is proof of the president\u2019s poor health&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zambia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/zambia-president-sata-to-open-parliament\/2430295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>Zambia\u2019s President Michael Sata plans to address the nation next month as he officially open parliament, a move intended to contradict reports that his health has led to a power struggle within the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party. Sata was last seen in public on June 19 when he met visiting Chinese Vice President Li [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,435,3793,994,257,2112,2113,3792,254,4693,3462,4709,881],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinese","tag-guy-scott","tag-michael-sata","tag-news","tag-patriotic-front","tag-pf","tag-president-li-yuanchao","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-u-s-africa-summit","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}