{
  "id": 99097,
  "title": "PAC announces former ANC member, Thami Ka Plaatjie, as its Joburg mayoral candidate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/pac-announces-former-anc-member-thami-ka-plaatjie-as-its-joburg",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-03T18:36:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mail and Guardian",
    "slug": "mail-and-guardian",
    "url": "https://mg.co.za/politics/2026-08-03-pac-announces-former-anc-member-thami-ka-plaatjie-as-its-joburg-mayoral-candidate/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) has named former ANC member Thami Ka Plaatjie as its mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. The party also announced candidates for Ekurhuleni, Emfuleni, and Sedibeng, as Ka Plaatjie officially rejoined the PAC after being expelled in 2003.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}