{"id":132405,"date":"2016-08-04T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T05:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=132405"},"modified":"2016-08-04T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T05:11:14","slug":"da-wins-midvaal-municipality-in-gauteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132405\/da-wins-midvaal-municipality-in-gauteng\/","title":{"rendered":"DA wins Midvaal municipality in Gauteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DA claimed on Thursday morning that it has retained the Midvaal municipality in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest count, with 58% of voting stations counted, the DA is currently at 50.49%.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is at 39.57%, while the EFF is at 5.98%. The Freedom Front Plus follows behind with 3.48%.<\/p>\n<p>DA MP Makashule Gana claimed on Twitter at around 04:00 that the party won the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Following the last local government elections in 2011, Midvaal was the only DA-led municipality in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives me great pleasure to announce that @Our_DA has won Midvaal with over 60% of the vote. 11\/15 Wards,&#8221; Gana said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Elections\/News\/da-claims-midvaal-victory-20160804\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the elections<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/130912\/this-is-how-the-da-says-it-will-create-jobs-in-your-city\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This is how the DA says it will create jobs in your city<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/122631\/this-is-where-the-da-has-the-most-support-in-every-province\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This is where the DA has the most support in every province<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA claimed on Thursday morning that it has retained the Midvaal municipality in Gauteng. According to the latest count, with 58% of voting stations counted, the DA is currently at 50.49%. The ANC is at 39.57%, while the EFF is at 5.98%. The Freedom Front Plus follows behind with 3.48%. DA MP Makashule Gana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":131456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-132405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132407,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132405\/revisions\/132407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}