{"id":131281,"date":"2016-08-23T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=131281"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T08:22:25","slug":"update-patricia-kumalo-re-elected-as-ekurhulenis-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/23\/update-patricia-kumalo-re-elected-as-ekurhulenis-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Patricia Kumalo re-elected as Ekurhuleni&#8217;s speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The votes have been counted and the ANC&#8217;s Clr Patricia Kumalo has been re-elected as the <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131273\/voting-for-speaker-of-council-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">speaker of council<\/a> for Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cIt is a great honour to be elected as speaker again.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI remain truly humbled and will endeavour to run this council chamber with integrity and impartiality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kumalo received 117 votes, while Clr Shadow Shabangu from the DA received 106 votes. There were 224 ballots cast and one was a spoilt vote.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A 10-minute recess has now been called.<\/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='a6c8b585d68efe1b2ea4912d21e31b67'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC has taken the position of speaker of council in Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":131282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,2360,979,969,2730,1009,2734,1002,1004,12103,2076],"class_list":["post-131281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-election","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-mayor","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-speaker-of-council","tag-vote"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","election","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","mayor","melissa hart","metro","municipality","speaker of council","vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131281","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}