{"id":131286,"date":"2016-08-23T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=131286"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:50:33","slug":"update-nominations-for-ekurhuleni-mayor-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/23\/update-nominations-for-ekurhuleni-mayor-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Nominations for Ekurhuleni mayor made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some debate and the DA raising the issue of whether or not ANC candidate Clr Mzandile Masina is still employed by the City of Johannesburg, the nominations for Ekurhuleni&#8217;s executive mayor are in.<\/p>\n<p>However, the DA says they are going to lodge a query about Masina&#8217;s current state of employment.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The ANC maintains that he has resigned from his position.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations are Clr Mzwandile Masina (ANC) and Clr Ghaleb Cachalia (DA).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A recess is now being held before voting begins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131281\/update-patricia-kumalo-re-elected-as-ekurhulenis-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Patricia Kumalo re-elected as Ekurhuleni\u2019s speaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131268\/update-metro-prepares-to-vote-for-speaker-of-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Metro prepares to vote for speaker of council<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131273\/voting-for-speaker-of-council-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Voting for speaker of council begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131257\/ekurhulenis-council-meeting-to-elect-new-mayor-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ekurhuleni\u2019s council meeting to elect new mayor underway<\/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='35492e78cc83d9a3d833192b3c6e9674'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council meeting continues with mayoral nominations being made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":131259,"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-131286","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\/131286","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=131286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}