{"id":207685,"date":"2019-06-14T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T06:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/volkswagen-making-waves-port-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:46","slug":"volkswagen-making-waves-port-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/06\/14\/volkswagen-making-waves-port-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen making waves in Port Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While only a qualifying series, there has been a tremendous increase in some of the best international and local entrants and a record amount of woman surfers. Presented by Hurley it is the biggest woman\u2019s World Surf League qualifying series event on the African continent with the six divisions sharing prize money worth R500\u00a0000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs title sponsor of this event as well as the official vehicle partner to the City Surf Series, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles continues to support surfing in South Africa, thus enabling young, up and coming athletes to realise that they too can be a dominant force at the QS tour,\u201d Andile Dlamini, Head of Volkswagen Group South Africa Communications.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Volkswagen has a long-standing history with the surfing culture, celebrating that; a spectator will be rewarded with a limited edition custom-designed surfboard shaped by Henry Chomper and designed by Martin Lund while Surfing South Africa\u2019s best performing rising star will be awarded a second custom board designed by Mr Migo commissioned by Volkswagen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133725\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/v2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The under-18 champions and the SSA Longboard Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s divisions will be crowned on Sunday as part of the Youth Day celebrations and the QS3000 Woman\u2019s division will be celebrated on Monday, the last day of the event. Also on the City Surf Series itinerary is a community beach clean-up.<\/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='8ea79dd0249648c4cf1a671336086f0c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming weekend will be the third consecutive Open of Surfing, which forms part of City Surf Series sponsored by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The event will be taking place from 13 \u2013 17 June at Pollock Beach in Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":207686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685","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\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}