{"id":69976,"date":"2014-10-02T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69976\/mec-joins-university-to-grow-women-engineers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:38:22","slug":"mec-joins-university-to-grow-women-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/02\/mec-joins-university-to-grow-women-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC joins university to grow women engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng MEC for infrastructure development Nandi Mayathula-Khoza recently attended the prestigious fifth University of Johannesburg and Group Five Creating Solutions 2014 Excellent Women in Engineering and Technology Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Mayathula-Khoza has announced plans for the infrastructure department to partner with the university in encouraging the advancement of women in the engineering sector.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The ceremony was held at Melrose Arch and the prestigious event attracted top women professionals and nominations from across South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the awards is to acknowledge, recognise and celebrate the contribution women are making to engineering in South Africa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The women in engineering and the built environment summit was initiated in 2008 and has since become an iconic event on the annual engineering and technology calendar.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that the awards will continue to motivate young women to engage or pursue their careers in engineering.<\/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='9b238f149dd973b55a57d4e07fd039fe'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More women needed in engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69982,"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":[8297,1012,1003,5001,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-69976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-engineering","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","engineering","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69976","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=69976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}