{"id":148031,"date":"2016-12-15T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=148031"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:54:33","slug":"tshwane-mayor-raises-a-red-flag-over-r180-million-wi-fi-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/148031\/tshwane-mayor-raises-a-red-flag-over-r180-million-wi-fi-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Tshwane mayor raises a red flag over R180 million Wi-Fi project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The R180 million spent by the City of Tshwane on a free Wi-Fi project had been \u201cred-flagged as unlawful and irregular expenditure by the Auditor General\u201d, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/ag-declared-tshwane-free-wi-fi-project-unlawful-irregular-mayor-20161215\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>News24<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was revealed during Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga\u2019s feedback on his first 100 days in office in Pretoria,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The free Wi-Fi project was reportedly paid for by grant funding \u2013 under a section of the Municipal Finance Management Act \u2013 meant for\u00a0non-profit organisations and charities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe non-profit company linked to the deal is called Project Isizwe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month the Auditor General informed the new DA-led city government that all city money spent on free Wi-Fi therefore constitutes irregular expenditure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the city also cannot continue to fund the free Wi-Fi project by itself.<\/p>\n<p>Member of the mayoral committee for corporate and shared services Cilliers Brink said the DA \u201creally wants to save\u201d the project, and one of the potential solutions was to sell digital advertising space on the Wi-Fi\u2019s interface menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/134000\/joburg-promises-free-wi-fi-for-all-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joburg promises free Wi-Fi for \u2018all residents\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R180 million spent by the City of Tshwane on a free Wi-Fi project had been \u201cred-flagged as unlawful and irregular expenditure by the Auditor General\u201d, according to a report by News24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":69133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-148031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148031","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148033,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148031\/revisions\/148033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}