{"id":236864,"date":"2022-09-12T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/deputy-president-to-attend-inauguration-of-kenyas-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:07:38","slug":"deputy-president-to-attend-inauguration-of-kenyas-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/deputy-president-to-attend-inauguration-of-kenyas-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy President to attend inauguration of Kenya\u2019s President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202209\/davidmabuzaflag.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Deputy President David Mabuza is headed to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the inauguration of President-elect, William Samoei Ruto, which takes place on Tuesday, 13 September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released on Monday, President-elect Ruto invited President Ramaphosa, who has since delegated the Deputy President to represent the government and people of South Africa at the inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa and Kenya enjoy strong bilateral relations, which are mutually beneficial and underpinned by common values and principles,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy President\u2019s Office said the inauguration follows the peacefully held national elections on 9 August 2022, where the incoming President received the majority of votes to become the fifth democratically elected President of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, President Ramaphosa offered his \u201cwarm congratulations\u201d to President-elect Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA prosperous and united Kenya is an important prerequisite for and contributor to a prosperous and peaceful continent. We look forward to working with you in pursuit of the Africa we want,\u201d he said. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President David Mabuza is headed to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the inauguration of President-elect, William Samoei Ruto, which takes place on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. According to a statement released on Monday, President-elect Ruto invited President Ramaphosa, who has since delegated the Deputy President to represent the government and people of South Africa at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":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":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-236864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/deputy-president-to-attend-inauguration-of-kenyas-president-elect.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}