{"id":38333,"date":"2013-05-22T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=38333"},"modified":"2013-05-22T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:13:24","slug":"anc-launches-app-in-western-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38333\/anc-launches-app-in-western-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC launches app in Western Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape ANC has launched a cellphone application to communicate with the province&#8217;s youth ahead of next year&#8217;s elections, The Cape Argus reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a society where, to reach the youth, social media platforms are most effective,&#8221; African National Congress provincial chairman Marius Fransman was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;myancwc&#8221; application reportedly went live on the social platform site Mxit on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mxit spokeswoman Sarah Rice told the newspaper about 800 people had asked questions about the app within hours of its launch.<\/p>\n<p>She said there were a million Mxit users in the province, most of them aged between 18 and 24.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on apps<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top 20 Vodacom apps\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/37133\/top-20-vodacom-apps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 20 Vodacom apps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mxit apps: how much do developers make?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/36215\/mxit-apps-show-me-the-money\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mxit apps: how much do developers make?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mxit reveals top user handsets\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34760\/mxit-reveals-top-user-handsets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mxit reveals top user handsets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to True Mxit user numbers revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/34140\/true-mxit-user-numbers-revealed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">True Mxit user numbers revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape ANC has launched a cellphone application to communicate with the province&#8217;s youth ahead of next year&#8217;s elections, The Cape Argus reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,1875,1039,1573],"class_list":["post-38333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-app","tag-mxit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38366,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333\/revisions\/38366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}