{"id":133336,"date":"2023-03-28T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133336"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:48:00","slug":"can-we-learn-anything-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/28\/can-we-learn-anything-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we learn anything from South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two of our senior Ministers have been to Africa to copy from them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there anything to get from them. The answer comes from a Paper I wrote long ago which is :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ylTrNbziJd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2014\/07\/07\/south-africa-helping-us-is-a-non-runner\/\">South Africa Helping us is a non runner<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;South Africa Helping us is a non runner&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2014\/07\/07\/south-africa-helping-us-is-a-non-runner\/embed\/#?secret=2UqaF8LEQZ#?secret=ylTrNbziJd\" data-secret=\"ylTrNbziJd\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garvin Karunaratne Two of our senior Ministers have been to Africa to copy from them.&nbsp; Is there anything to get from them. The answer comes from a Paper I wrote long ago which is :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}