{"id":124731,"date":"2023-12-02T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=124731"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:44:14","slug":"joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=124731","title":{"rendered":"Joburg council | New speaker to be elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda has assured residents council politics will not affect service delivery. The metro&#8217;s council has been left without a speaker following Collen Makhuebele&#8217;s expulsion from her party Cope. Gwamanda says he&#8217;s confident a new speaker will be elected soon. He&#8217;s also dismissed notions of political instability in the city, saying<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/joburg-council-new-speaker-be-elected\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda has assured residents council politics will not affect service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected-300x223.webp",300,223,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/124731-joburg-council-new-speaker-to-be-elected.webp",480,356,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}