{"id":965064,"date":"2024-07-10T05:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965064"},"modified":"2024-07-10T05:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:43:27","slug":"ethekwini-to-vote-for-a-new-mayor-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ethekwini-to-vote-for-a-new-mayor-today\/","title":{"rendered":"eThekwini to vote for a new Mayor today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special sitting of the eThekwini Municipal Council will today vote to appoint a new Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the redeployment of Mxolisi Kaunda last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/ethekwini-mayor-kaunda-redeployed-to-the-ncop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaunda was redeployed by the ANC to the National Council of Provinces<\/a> (NCOP) in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The only ANC run metro in the country, eThekwini, has come under fire from residents for a range of service delivery challenges, including water shortages and sewerage infrastructure breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the ANC redeployed its chairperson of the Defence Portfolio Committee in the National Assembly Cyril Xaba to the eThekwini Metro council.<\/p>\n<p>Xaba, who was the KwaZulu-Natal Agriculture MEC between 2014 and 2019, took up the seat left vacant by Kaunda.<\/p>\n<p>Kaunda welcomed his redeployment and spoke out against critics who have lamented the state of service delivery in the Metro, saying his work speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/469UjBuZ4eI?si=S-GjaByG4dSVsLCB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaunda was redeployed by the ANC to the National Council of Provinces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[999],"class_list":["post-965064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ethekwini-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}