{"id":50093,"date":"2013-12-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50093\/new-caucus-leader-is-elected-by-the-ekurhuleni-da\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T08:45:55","slug":"new-caucus-leader-is-elected-by-the-ekurhuleni-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/06\/new-caucus-leader-is-elected-by-the-ekurhuleni-da\/","title":{"rendered":"New caucus leader is elected by the Ekurhuleni DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Loe has been replaced by Fortune Mahano as leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Ekurhuleni Metro.<\/p>\n<p>Mahano previously held the position of chairman of the DA caucus in Ekurhuleni, and was elected as leader by the DA caucus internal mid-term election on November 25.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Tania Campbell was elected caucus chairperson and Mahano appointed Andr\u00e9 du Plessis to the position of chief whip.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Clarke remains the deputy chief Whip.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mahano said he was honoured to lead the official opposition in Ekurhuleni, knowing that this was the dawn of a time when the DA would be part of government as soon as next year.<\/p>\n<p>As outgoing leader, Loe said she was delighted to make way for Mahano, a veteran councillor, currently serving his third term, and a stalwart member of the DA and its predecessor, the Democratic Party.<\/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='b30bee5ec24f87c4a4e28163e78c8b22'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune Mahano as leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Ekurhuleni Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tumelo Tshetlo","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[1177,1148,1012,1003,2360,979,2359,1002,1004,2076],"class_list":["post-50093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-council","tag-da","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-election","tag-germiston","tag-leader","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-vote"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["council","DA","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","election","germiston","leader","metro","municipality","vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50093","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=50093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}