{"id":92738,"date":"2015-06-27T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92738\/long-time-germiston-resident-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:20:03","slug":"long-time-germiston-resident-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/27\/long-time-germiston-resident-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-time Germiston resident passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarel Naude was an extremely well-known man in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>He recently passed away.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He served as a councillor on the Germiston City Council and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>During his political career he served as deputy mayor of Germiston between 1984 and 1985, and 1992 and 1993.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He also went on to serve as mayor of Germiston from 1988 to 1989 and again from 1993 to December 1995.<\/p>\n<p>He served on many council-related committees and was an alderman of the Germiston City Council.<\/p>\n<p>As a DA councillor he was a member of the Greater Germiston management committee and was made chairman of the Germiston constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Helen Zille.<\/p>\n<p>Naude was also an outstanding member of the Germiston Lions Club.<\/p>\n<p>He served the club for 35 years, becoming its president three times.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 he was presented with the highest award in Lionism, the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award.<\/p>\n<p>In his 85 years Naude never sat down to rest, he was constantly on the go, being chairman or a committee member of various organisations, such as the Dinwiddie High Governing Body, WABAC, SAVF Kowa Pienaar Old Age Home, Elsburg Dienssentrum and many others.<\/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='4e42b104458bee01d9f8519cb64bb0a6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Sarel Naude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5963,979,969,7717,2734,1494,7716],"class_list":["post-92738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-councillor","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-in-memory-of","tag-melissa-hart","tag-obituary","tag-sarel-naude"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Councillor","germiston","germiston city news","in memory of","melissa hart","obituary","sarel naude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738","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=92738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}