{"id":88863,"date":"2024-05-20T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=88863"},"modified":"2024-05-20T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T19:38:59","slug":"why-muslims-should-vote-for-the-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/why-muslims-should-vote-for-the-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Muslims should vote for the ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za<br \/>\n20 May 2024 | 21:38<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56395\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56395\" data-attachment-id=\"56395\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/anc-flag-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/anc-flag-2.jpg?fit=2498%2C1667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2498,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;An ANC flag is seen as supporters of the ANC demonstrate outside the offices of ENCA, 2 March 2021, in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, over alleged racism by reporter Lindsay Dentlinger during a recent broadcast. Picture: Michel Bega&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1614681319&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"anc-flag-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;An ANC flag is seen as supporters of the ANC demonstrate outside the offices of ENCA, 2 March 2021, in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, over alleged racism by reporter Lindsay Dentlinger during a recent broadcast. Picture: Michel Bega&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/anc-flag-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56395\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/anc-flag-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture: Michel Bega<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Minister of Basic Education Enver Surty spoke to Radio Islam International earlier today, explaining why South African Muslims should still lend their support to the African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points Surty made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite the numerous challenges facing South Africa, the ANC has led South Africa extremely well on its democratic journey<\/li>\n<li>The Muslim community has benefited far more than they have suffered in the last 30 years<\/li>\n<li>On ANC\u2019s support for Palestine, Surty says the ANC\u2019s stance against Israel demonstrates moral courage and justice, and is likely to derail the trend of Muslim votes shifting to other parties like the DA<\/li>\n<li>Surty highlights the ANC\u2019s significant achievements in sectors like education and nutrition, despite ongoing corruption issue, and says efforts to address corruption and improve service delivery are ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Listen<\/strong> to the full interview:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Why Muslims should vote ANC | Enver Surty by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1825949004&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080#?secret=d9saNcVdtg\" data-secret=\"d9saNcVdtg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 20 May 2024 | 21:38 Former Minister of Basic Education Enver Surty spoke to Radio Islam International earlier today, explaining why South African Muslims should still lend their support to the African National Congress (ANC). Here are the key points Surty made: Despite the numerous challenges facing South Africa, the ANC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56395,"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":[8490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/anc-flag-2.jpg?fit=2498%2C1667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-n7h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 16:09:46","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\/88863","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=88863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}