{"id":238733,"date":"2020-03-17T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sowetourban.co.za\/car\/news\/uncategorized\/simola-hillclimb-placed-hold\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:55:29","slug":"simola-hillclimb-placed-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2020\/03\/17\/simola-hillclimb-placed-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Simola Hillclimb placed on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first cases of the Coronavirus were observed in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa\u00a0declared the international pandemic and its presence locally as a national state of emergency. After the declaration, the organisers of the Simola Hillclimb has decided to postpone the globally enjoyed event as approximately 17\u00a0000 people from all over the world and all walks of life were expected to attend<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are naturally very disappointed to have to move the event to later in the year, but the health of our employees, sponsor staff, competitors and their support crew, fans, suppliers and the general containment of the virus is the most important issue to consider at this time,\u201d said the organisers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We will monitor the situation as it develops in the country, but we intend to run the event later in the year when this becomes sensible, safe and possible. We believe that this would be the outcome that most of our stakeholders would like to see happen,\u201d the organisers concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Contiguously engaging with Motorsport South Africa, the organisers of the Simola Hillclimb will announce a new date for the event to take place once the situation has been resolved.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\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='0c01b1dfb7e93984b9291f21affa1a1f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to take place from 7-10 May 2020, the Simola Hillclimb will now take place later in 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":238735,"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-238733","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\/238733","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=238733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}