{"id":127659,"date":"2024-11-19T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127659"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:53:40","slug":"south-africa-election-count-continues-in-closest-election-for-30-years-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127659","title":{"rendered":"South Africa election count continues in closest election for 30 years | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VhXqf5v52bc?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The counting of the votes has started in what is seen as South Africa&#8217;s most closely fought elections since the African National Congress came to power 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s election saw long lines of voters outside polling stations late into the night across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The key issues for voters were widespread corruption in government, high levels of unemployment and rampant crime.<\/p>\n<p>A record 70 parties and 11 independents were running, with South Africans voting for a new parliament and nine provincial legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>More than 27 million people were registered to cast their ballots, including a high percentage of young voters.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#SouthAfrica #Election #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VhXqf5v52bc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The counting of the votes has started in what is seen as South Africa&#8217;s most closely fought elections since the African National Congress came to power 30 years ago. Wednesday&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127659\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}