{"id":179,"date":"2013-10-14T17:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/?p=179"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T08:46:52","slug":"pact-between-anc-putins-party-is-worrying-for-sa-ilive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/pact-between-anc-putins-party-is-worrying-for-sa-ilive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pact between ANC, Putin&#8217;s party is worrying for SA: iLIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">I refer to ANC signing a &#8220;memorandum of understanding&#8221; with Putin\u2019s violently homophobic United Russia party and wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the signing of this pact.<\/p>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s party stands for everything that our constitution outright bans: discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, gender discrimination, control of a free press, the right to a clean environment and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has deteriorated into an autocracy which borders on a dictatorship&nbsp;&#8211; and the ANC tacitly condones this by signing any agreement with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>They should instead ask him about the many human rights violations in Russia, for example. state-sanctioned prosecution, assault and even murder of LGBTI people and others, the anti-gay propaganda law and the proposed unthinkable law of taking away children from gay parents.<\/p>\n<p>Is this really the type of people the ANC want to be bed-fellows with?<\/p>\n<p>If so, we as South Africans have a lot to be concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/ilive\/2013\/10\/14\/Pact-between-ANC-Putins-party-is-worrying-for-SA-iLIVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/ilive\/2013\/10\/14\/Pact-between-ANC-Putins-party-is-worrying-for-SA-iLIVE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refer to ANC signing a &#8220;memorandum of understanding&#8221; with Putin\u2019s violently homophobic United Russia party and wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the signing of this pact. Putin&#8217;s party stands for everything that our constitution outright bans: discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, gender discrimination, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coenraadkukkuk.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}