{"id":78558,"date":"2023-05-31T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=78558"},"modified":"2023-05-31T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:55:35","slug":"africa-report-with-dr-pedzisai-ruhanya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/africa-report-with-dr-pedzisai-ruhanya-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Report with Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Annisa Essack | <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:kzn@radioislam.org.za\">kzn@radioislam.org.za<\/a><br \/>\n30 May 2023 | 09:00 CAT<br \/>\n2 min read<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78559\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78559\" data-attachment-id=\"78559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/africa-report-with-dr-pedzisai-ruhanya-2\/africa-report-zdi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Africa-Report-ZDI.png?fit=1080%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Credit: Zimbabwe Democracy Institute&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Africa-Report-ZDI.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Africa-Report-ZDI.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Africa-Report-ZDI.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-78559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Photo Credit: Zimbabwe Democracy Institute<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Sudan crisis for which there was a 7-day ceasefire in place ended, and both sides began attacks again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regarding the Zimbabwe elections, which will take place in August, Ruhanya says there have been challenges as the voter&#8217;s roll is only known to the ruling party. Opposition parties accuse the Electoral Committee of being in cahoots with Zanu PF to deny voter roll access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the diplomatic war between South Africa and the US is ongoing, Ruhanya says that South Africa is a country that supports human rights born out of its political struggle and thus has the right as a sovereign right to choose its allies. However, he says South Africa should not support Russia as it violates the UN Charter and fundamental civil and political rights that South Africa upholds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authoritarian resurgence through coups is happening in Africa, and Ruhanya says there is backsliding in terms of democratic governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Listen to the full interview on Sabahul Muslim with Sulaimaan Ravat <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/KNBzB\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislam.org.za 30 May 2023 | 09:00 CAT 2 min read The Sudan crisis for which there was a 7-day ceasefire in place ended, and both sides began attacks again. Regarding the Zimbabwe elections, which will take place in August, Ruhanya says there have been challenges as the voter&#8217;s roll is only known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4996,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Africa-Report-ZDI.png?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-kr4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:00:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}