{"id":127876,"date":"2016-07-14T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127876\/ekurhuleni-keeps-it-green\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:13:51","slug":"ekurhuleni-keeps-it-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/14\/ekurhuleni-keeps-it-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekurhuleni keeps it green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro has been named the second greenest municipality in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It walked away with R3-million, which will be used in future environmental and green economy initiatives, and a certificate of recognition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The announcement was made by the National Department of Environmental Affairs during the fifth Greenest Municipality Competition (GMC) held in the Steve Tshwete Municipality in Mpumalanga, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners included the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in the competition that saw over a 100 metropolitan and local municipalities compete.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cComing second in the competition means we set the tone that many other metros have learnt from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will accelerate our efforts to claim the number one spot in the competition,\u201d said the metro\u2019s MMC for environmental development, Clr Ndosi Shongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Ndosi attributed the accolade to the dedicated efforts of various departments including waste management services, health and social services, environmental resource management, as well as the water and energy departments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126415\/ekurhuleni-topped-metros-in-gautengs-largest-quality-of-life-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ekurhuleni topped metros in Gauteng\u2019s largest quality of life survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126413\/councillors-take-the-voices-of-the-people-to-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Councillors take the voices of the people to council regarding power outages<\/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='518423369081c55a35f1bacc766075ac'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metro was rewarded for being the second greenest metro in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":127877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-127876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127876","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=127876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}