{"id":22697,"date":"2026-01-21T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-will-not-be-attending-world-economic-forum-in-davos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:37","slug":"sa-president-will-not-be-attending-world-economic-forum-in-davos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-will-not-be-attending-world-economic-forum-in-davos\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President will not be\u00a0attending World Economic Forum in Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not be attending this year&#8217;s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">This is citing his involvement in preparations for the African National Congress Lekgotla, the Cabinet Lekgotla, and the upcoming State of the Nation Address.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ramaphosa says, despite his absence, SA is well represented at the global economic gathering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was speaking on the sidelines of the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla in Boksburg, Gauteng Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16437,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-22697","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"World Economic Forum","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25908,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22697\/revisions\/25908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}