{"id":9751,"date":"2014-05-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/9751\/lekota-to-visit-town\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T09:19:56","slug":"lekota-to-visit-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/01\/lekota-to-visit-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Lekota to visit town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While here he will address the unemployed at the Eric Jiyane Hall at Mhluzi at 15:30.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter he will proceed to Newtown where he will conduct a door-to-door visit and also speak to the community briefly at 17:00.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lekota will then go to the Eastdene Community Hall where he will address business people, professionals and religious leaders on COPE\u2019s economic and social policies towards a better South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by local COPE Councillor Ben Mokoena, a invitation was extended to \u201cthe various sectors of the Middelburg community mentioned above\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Mokoena urged all residents to come out in their numbers \u201cto listen to this outstanding stalwart of the liberation struggle, a man who spent the greater part of his youth an adult life fighting the course of the most down-trodden sectors of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information Cllr Mokoena can be contacted at 082 350 3574.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Congress of the People (COPE), Mr Mosioua \u201cTerror\u201d Lekota will visit Middelburg this Friday, 2 May 2014 on a COPE election trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":9752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[1332,1333,1336,1334,1335],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-congress-of-the-people-cope","tag-cope-election-trail","tag-eastdene-community-hall","tag-eric-jiyane-hall-mhluzi","tag-newtown"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Congress of the People (COPE)","COPE election trail","Eastdene Community Hall","Eric Jiyane Hall Mhluzi","newtown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}