{"id":23691,"date":"2026-02-12T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-au-peace-council-seat-affirms-commitment-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:27","slug":"sas-au-peace-council-seat-affirms-commitment-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-au-peace-council-seat-affirms-commitment-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s AU peace council seat affirms commitment: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">International Relations and Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola says South Africa\u2019s (SA) election to the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council, reaffirms the country\u2019s commitment to play a critical role in having a safe continent.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>SA \u00a0was elected alongside Lesotho, to represent the southern region in the council.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Lamola is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attending the AU Executive Council ahead of the leaders\u2019 summit this weekend.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The SA government has thanked the AU member states for their confidence and committed to work with the Peace and Security Council in addressing challenges.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>This comes as the continent is grappling with unconstitutional changes of government, violent extremism and terrorism.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Pretoria further says it will advocate for peaceful conflict resolution, inclusive dialogue and negotiations, aimed at supporting conflicting parties in finding durable solutions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21929,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23691","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This comes as the continent is grappling with unconstitutional changes of government.","published_date":null,"news_description":"This comes as the continent is grappling with unconstitutional changes of government.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23691","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\/23691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26584,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23691\/revisions\/26584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}