{"id":75163,"date":"2017-11-10T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=75163"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:48:05","slug":"new-municipal-manager-quietly-slips-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/10\/new-municipal-manager-quietly-slips-position\/","title":{"rendered":"New Municipal Manager quietly slips into position"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bheki\u00a0Khenisa previously worked as Municipal Manager in Rustenburg. He was ousted for unspent conditional grants of over R400 million.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although he did not want to confirm his appointment when he was contacted by\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>Steve Tshwete mayor Mike Masina confirmed that Mr Khenisa was appointed acting MM by the MEC.<\/p>\n

A special council meeting was held earlier this week, to obtain council approval for his appointment. Read more about how opposition parties reacted in the Friday edition of the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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The appointment of a new acting Municipal Manager, Bheki Khenisa, was done without any announcement last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":75165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8998,21966,21990,8232,8238,8999,2972,920,8197,8997],"class_list":["post-75163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bheki-khenisa","tag-middelburg","tag-mpumalanga","tag-municipal-manager","tag-new-mm","tag-rustenburg","tag-steve-tshwete","tag-steve-tshwete-municipality","tag-theo-van-vuuren","tag-who-is-the-new-municipal-manager"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Bheki Khenisa","middelburg","Mpumalanga","municipal manager","new mm","rustenburg","Steve Tshwete","Steve Tshwete Municipality","theo van vuuren","who is the new municipal manager?"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75163","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=75163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}