{"id":968011,"date":"2024-06-12T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968011"},"modified":"2024-06-12T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:15:52","slug":"mangaung-metro-gives-parties-14-days-to-remove-election-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mangaung-metro-gives-parties-14-days-to-remove-election-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangaung Metro gives parties 14 days to remove election posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mangaung<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0Metro<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">M<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">unicipality<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> in Bloemfontein, Free State, has given political parties 14 days in which to remove their election campaign posters or face being <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">penalised<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> under by-laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Many posters have still not been removed following the recent elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The municipality\u2019s spokesperson Qondile Khedama says, \u201cMost of the posters are now down. We are requesting those who have not yet done so, remove them before we institute a penalty. We would want to thank the other parties for cooperating as most of them are down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this is just a reminder to all political parties and independent candidates who have put up posters to please make sure that before we institute a penalty you remove them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, City of Cape Town\u2019s Environment and Heritage Manager Dimitri Georgeades said political parties had been given until June 10, 2024 to remove their election posters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/city-of-joburg-to-fine-parties-for-unremoved-elections-posters\/?hilite=posters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failure to comply will result in fines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8FTRFjwmAyk?si=mwTB2ZLa6kKhKTAN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The\u00a0Mangaung\u00a0Metro\u00a0Municipality in Bloemfontein, Free State, has given political parties 14 days in which to remove their election campaign posters or face being penalised under by-laws.\u00a0 Many posters have still not been removed following the recent elections.\u00a0 The municipality\u2019s spokesperson Qondile Khedama says, \u201cMost of the posters are now down. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":968012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3058,2268,3059],"class_list":["post-968011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-city-of-cape-towns-environment-and-heritage-manager","tag-election-posters","tag-mangaung-metro-municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968011","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}