{"id":1501,"date":"2026-09-30T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/09\/30\/whole-of-society-response-why-deputy-minister-letsikes-call-matters\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:17:56","slug":"whole-of-society-response-why-deputy-minister-letsikes-call-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/09\/30\/whole-of-society-response-why-deputy-minister-letsikes-call-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole\u2011of\u2011Society Response: Why Deputy Minister Letsike\u2019s Call Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister Letsike calls for whole-of-society response to gender-based violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister Letsike has urged every sector to tackle gender\u2011based violence, and this essay argues that a coordinated, resource\u2011driven strategy is the only path to lasting change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}