{"id":54926,"date":"2016-08-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/54926\/eff-causes-stir-during-council-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:56:39","slug":"eff-causes-stir-during-council-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/19\/eff-causes-stir-during-council-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF causes stir during council inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only a hand full of former councillors retaining their seats, the ANC will have its work cut out for it, against a formidable opposition, including a vocal EFF.<\/p>\n<p>With the first foot in the door, the EFF stayed true to its form, challenging newly elected Speaker, Andries Mabena, on a point of order.<\/p>\n<p>Council rushed through Item SC02\/08\/2016, relating to the standing rules of order for Councillors, which spurred two EFF members to call the house to order.<\/p>\n<p>Me Mabena only succeeded in silencing the EFF, by promising to return to the item at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p>If the EFF\u2019s conduct is anything to go by, Speaker Mabena and the ANC should buckle up for a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n<p>Everything however went to plan for the ANC who voted in Mayor Mike Masina for a second term without hassle.<\/p>\n<p>As predicted by www.mobserver.co.za, the Chief Whip position went to former Mayoral Committee Member, Ms Semakaleng Nkadimeng.<\/p>\n<p>The public gallery had to be called to order on a number of occasions, being reminded that the sitting was formal, with only Councillors allowed to give inputs by grace of the Speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of familiar faces were ominously missing from the floor when the newly elected council was sworn in at the banquet hall on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":54927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}