{"id":115574,"date":"2016-03-12T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115574\/metro-is-taking-note-of-makause-memorandum\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T12:51:45","slug":"metro-is-taking-note-of-makause-memorandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/12\/metro-is-taking-note-of-makause-memorandum\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro is taking note of Makause memorandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the community of the Makause informal settlement marched to the Germiston Civic Centre to deliver a memorandum to the mayor regarding housing and service delivery on Tuesday, the metro gave this response.<\/p>\n<p>Zweli Dlamini, mayoral spokesman, said, \u201cThe community of the area must be commended for actually following due process in staging this protest.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey must also be commended for not using this action to disrupt the voter registration process at the weekend like we saw in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed we have received their memorandum in which they have given us a period within which to respond.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe shall be taking the letter through our own processes and will get back to them within the stipulated period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPertinent service delivery matters were raised by the community and luckily some of the issues were already receiving attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall be reconciling our facts about the future of the area and prepare a report that we will share with the protesters in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115028\/makause-residents-take-to-the-streets-in-service-delivery-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Makause residents take to the streets in service delivery protest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115056\/we-want-houses-service-delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch all the action: \u2018We want houses, service delivery!\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='756af0dbd327e78fb2894f5055f0a9ca'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro commends community for not disrupting voter registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":115133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1003,979,969,1288,2734,1002,1004,7452,1154],"class_list":["post-115574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-makause-informal-settlement","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-protest-march","tag-service-delivery"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","makause informal settlement","melissa hart","metro","municipality","Protest March","service delivery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}