{"id":85573,"date":"2015-04-07T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/85573\/president-zumas-spokesperson-retires\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:15:03","slug":"president-zumas-spokesperson-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/07\/president-zumas-spokesperson-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"President Zuma\u2019s spokesperson retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Presidency, Mr Maharaj, President Zuma&#8217;s former Special Envoy and former Cabinet Minister in South Africa&#8217;s first democratic administration, turns 80 years old in April this year and has decided \u2018it is time to slow down a bit\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish to thank Mr Maharaj for this special service to the President and the country and wish him well in his retirement,\u201d said President Zuma.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mr Harold Maloka, Deputy Director-General in the Government Communication and Information System, will be Acting Spokesperson to the President from May 2015 until further notice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><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='efa623b26041a36a15c07e0b6a25b6e4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Advisor and Spokesperson to President Jacob Zuma, Mr Mac Maharaj, will retire at the end of April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":85577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7089,7090,5510],"class_list":["post-85573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","tag-mac-maharaj","tag-sa-presidency","tag-south-african-government"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["mac maharaj","SA Presidency","South African Government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85573","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}