{"id":141152,"date":"2016-12-20T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141152\/municipal-offices-to-close-for-christmas-holidays\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T06:33:52","slug":"municipal-offices-to-close-for-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/20\/municipal-offices-to-close-for-christmas-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal offices to close for Christmas holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro wishes to inform its ratepayers of the closure of council offices between Christmas and New Year.<\/p>\n<p>All administrative offices, libraries, selected rates halls and pay-points will be closed from 1pm on Friday, December 23 and will re-open on Tuesday, January 3 next year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>However, emergency and essential services such as refuse collection, electricity and water services will not be affected by the recess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime off during the Christmas holidays is the best opportunity to afford our employees time to spend with their families especially those who wish to travel to their respective home towns during this season,\u201d said metro spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cResidents are also reminded to pay their municipal accounts on time and utilise facilities such as the www.e-siyakhokha.co.za online platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to use the following numbers in cases of emergencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life Threatening Emergency Line: 011 458- 0911 or 10177 or 112 from a cellphone.<\/li>\n<li>Municipal Services Call Centre: 0860 543 000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The municipality wishes all its residents a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140468\/christmas-fun-for-the-elderly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas fun for the elderly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140285\/various-programmes-initiated-in-mayors-100-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">Various programmes initiated in mayor\u2019s 100 days<\/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='2ac653fd481682448adcb51b0347ae04'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take note of these closure dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141245,"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":[1885,1003,2384,979,969,2734,1002,1004,13273],"class_list":["post-141152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-festive-season","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-offices"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Christmas","Ekurhuleni","festive season","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","offices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141152","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=141152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}