{"id":73250,"date":"2014-11-12T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73250\/businesses-to-get-the-opportunity-to-talk-to-the-metro\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:52:39","slug":"businesses-to-get-the-opportunity-to-talk-to-the-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/12\/businesses-to-get-the-opportunity-to-talk-to-the-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses to get the opportunity to talk to the metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The business of a municipality is to ensure that businesses stay in business.<\/p>\n<p>Not only by ensuring that they have a stable supply of running water and electricity, but by adopting and implementing development strategies that complement the business community.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, November 13, Ekurhuleni\u2019s executive mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele and city manager Khaya Ngema will launch the \u201cCity Meets Business\u201d initiative, a networking platform for business and the metro\u2019s top management team.<\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming 80 per cent of the metro\u2019s income is generated by 20 per cent of its customers, which are businesses.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet for many years businesses in Ekurhuleni have not had an opportunity to engage with senior management on a formal open platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity Meets Business\u201d has thus been specifically formulated to engage with Ekurhuleni business as a collective in an endeavour to improve and open communication channels with the metro.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will be the first of the get-togethers &#8211; which will be hosted on quarterly basis \u2013 and is to focus on the Ekurhuleni Growth and Development Strategy 2055 and progress on the aerotropolis and Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network (IRPTN) flagship projects.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the \u201cCity Meets Business\u201d launch are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 7.30am for 8am<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Germiston Banquet Hall, Cross Street, Germiston.<\/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='da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro set to meet the business community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,8515,2],"tags":[1497,1003,979,969,5541,2734,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-73250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-business","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-meet-business","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["business","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","meet business","melissa hart","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73250","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=73250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}