{"id":56064,"date":"2014-04-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56064\/nkandla-online-advert-goes-live\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:48:28","slug":"nkandla-online-advert-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/03\/nkandla-online-advert-goes-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on DA&#8217;s reaction to Nkandla report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DA has launched a new online advertisement, following the laying of criminal charges against President Jacob Zuma, after the Public Protector&#8217;s Nkandla report was released, this week.<\/p>\n<p>So far R246-million of public money has been spent on the President&#8217;s home.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The advert, featuring DA Gauteng Premier candidate Mmusi Maimane, went live on Saturday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Protector clearly found that the President personally appointed service providers, without going to tender, to build extensive luxuries, including a cattle kraal, chicken run, visitors&#8217; centre, amphitheatre, swimming pool and extensive paving.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Public Works Department is on record in the report, citing this as a key reason why it did not go to tender.<\/p>\n<p>The advert makes the case that Zuma&#8217;s ANC is no longer the ANC of Mandela, Tambo and Mbeki.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans will have the opportunity to vote on May 7.<\/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='0a9700e4e8093c083010a1732c4a86bf'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nkandla online advert goes live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":56711,"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":[8297,1148,1012,1003,979,2730,1002,1004,1167,3236],"class_list":["post-56064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-da","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-opinion-2","tag-thoughts"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","DA","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","opinion","thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064","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=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}