{"id":73769,"date":"2017-10-13T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73769"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:47:16","slug":"mr-fix-coming-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/13\/mr-fix-coming-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Mr Fix It&#8217; coming to Middelburg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If rumors are to be believed, a new Municipal Manager was appointed last night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobserver.co.za has<\/strong> learned from a trusted source that Theo van Vuuren, dubbed &#8216;Mr Fix It&#8217;when he started at the troubled eMalahleni\u00a0 municpality, was appointed as acting Municipal Manager at the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>It recently came to light that an outside candidate might be appointed in the place of acting Municipal Manager Mandla Mnguni.<\/p>\n<p>Van Vuuren has been wrapped in controversy after allegations that he spent R20 mil on body guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Why fix something that is not broken?&#8217; Residents are in uproar after news that an outside candidate might have been appointed as Municipal Manager in the place of Mandla Mnguni. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Middelburg Observer Editorial Team","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[2996,21966,2973,2972,8197,8088],"class_list":["post-73769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-emalahleni","tag-middelburg","tag-municipality","tag-steve-tshwete","tag-theo-van-vuuren","tag-witbank-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["emalahleni","middelburg","municipality","Steve Tshwete","theo van vuuren","witbank news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73769","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}