{"id":178037,"date":"2017-06-07T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=178037"},"modified":"2017-06-07T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:03:55","slug":"emfuleni-mayor-using-municipal-security-to-guard-his-private-guest-house-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/178037\/emfuleni-mayor-using-municipal-security-to-guard-his-private-guest-house-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Emfuleni mayor using municipal security to guard his private guest house &#8211; DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance has accused Emfuleni mayor, Simon Mofokeng, of using municipal security to guard his private guest house at a cost of R1 milllion.<\/p>\n<p>The DA said it has been reliably informed that more than four security personnel have been stationed outside his guest house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is yet another example of mayor Mofokeng\u2019s flagrant abuse of state resources for his personal use; the DA recently uncovered the Mayor\u2019s shocking R1.7 million spend on Nandos, KFC and hotels,&#8221; said Kingsol Chabalala, DA Gauteng Constituency Head \u2013 Emfuleni North.<\/p>\n<p>The DA said it is in possession of a document which stipulates the amounts paid to security per month at various station points in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, \u201cMayor\u2019s Additions\u201d is stipulated in the fine print for additional security personnel, the political party said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/175879\/emfuleni-mayor-spends-r1-7-million-on-kfc-nandos-and-hotels-da\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emfuleni mayor spends R1.7 million on KFC, Nando\u2019s and hotels \u2013 DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance has accused Emfuleni mayor, Simon Mofokeng, of using municipal security to guard his private guest house at a cost of R1 milllion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":99252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-178037","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\/178037","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=178037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178045,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178037\/revisions\/178045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}