{"id":128693,"date":"2016-07-22T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128693\/battle-for-jhb-mayoral-chain-parks-vs-mashaba\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:04:55","slug":"battle-for-jhb-mayoral-chain-parks-vs-mashaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/22\/battle-for-jhb-mayoral-chain-parks-vs-mashaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Jhb Mayoral chain: Parks vs Mashaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With local elections around the corner, many are pondering which party will get their vote. Some South African municipalities are well-run and some poorly managed. Issues of concern include service delivery and maintenance of roads and public spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joburgtoday.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">JoburgToday.tv<\/a>\u00a0spent some time with \u00a0both mayoral candidates to find out who they are and their plans for the city.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Over the past five years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joburg.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">City of Johannesburg<\/a> has been run by Parks Tau and his counsel. He has introduced the Youth Empowerment programme which has partnered with 250 companies in the hopes of alleviating unemployment in the city. \u00a0The video below reports on the progress and projects introduced by Parks Tau.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vy547gM4kS8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.da.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Democratic Alliance&#8217;s <\/a>mayoral candidate is entrepreneur and businessman Herman Mashaba. Mashaba prides himself on being ethical in business and \u00a0that&#8217;s what will drive him during his term if he becomes mayor. In the video Mashaba\u00a0shares his life story and visions for the city.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ld15yfGO7uI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='f181e7e9e27013a1f5b4b70704f84657'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election fever has hit the city and it&#8217;s no wonder that Joburgers are eager to find out who will be their next mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7663,"featured_media":128694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11797,11798,11799,11800],"class_list":["post-128693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-city-of-joburg","tag-herman-mashaba","tag-mayoral-candidates","tag-parks-tau"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["City of Joburg","Herman Mashaba","Mayoral Candidates","parks tau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128693","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\/7663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}