{"id":965474,"date":"2024-07-12T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965474"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:15:20","slug":"polokwane-mayor-cancels-tenders-alleges-contractor-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/polokwane-mayor-cancels-tenders-alleges-contractor-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Polokwane Mayor cancels tenders, alleges contractor sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Polokwane Municipality in Limpopo John Mpe has cancelled tenders for low-maintenance services. He\u00a0says the decision was taken due to alleged sabotage of the municipal services by contractors to win tenders with the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Mpe adds that municipal workers will be doing the maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor further stresses that the new strategy will save the city millions of rands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are various areas where we have stopped tenders. We have said the reason why we have to mention it is because in other municipalities there will be a park like this and people will be tempted to say somebody can come and do it nicely and quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have decided to utilize our own staff and own workers within the environment and we are confident that this is part of us saving money,&#8221; explains Mpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor of Polokwane cancels tenders for low-maintenance services, alleging contractor sabotage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[1170,1171],"class_list":["post-965474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-john-mpe","tag-polokwane-executive-mayor-john-mpe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965474","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=965474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}