{"id":134094,"date":"2016-08-22T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=134094"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:03:09","slug":"anc-councillor-dies-during-joburg-mayor-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/134094\/anc-councillor-dies-during-joburg-mayor-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC councillor dies during Joburg mayor vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after the nominations were announced for mayor of the Johannesburg City Council, an ANC councillor had collapsed and later died.<\/p>\n<p>The councillor, whose identity is not yet known, was seen being removed from the chambers just as the nominations had been called.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC\u2019s Parks Tau and the DA\u2019s Herman Mashaba were nominated for the position of mayor of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/anc-councillor-dies-during-joburg-mayor-vote-20160822\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA politics<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/133920\/zuma-backers-want-anc-gauteng-leadership-out-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zuma backers want ANC Gauteng leadership out: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132405\/da-wins-midvaal-municipality-in-gauteng\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DA wins Midvaal municipality in Gauteng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/133748\/eff-will-vote-for-mashaba-malema\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EFF will vote for Mashaba: Malema<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after the nominations were announced for mayor of the Johannesburg City Council, an ANC councillor had collapsed and later died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":115838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-134094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134094","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=134094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134096,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134094\/revisions\/134096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}