{"id":80953,"date":"2015-02-26T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=80953"},"modified":"2015-02-26T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:23:38","slug":"free-uber-rides-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/80953\/free-uber-rides-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Uber rides in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is offering Joburg, Pretoria and Cape Town residents free Uber rides in March.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion is in partnership with Volkswagen to celebrate the launch of the new Volkswagen Up.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign period will run from 2 to 8 March 2015, between 13h00 and 21h00 during the week, and 15h00 and 23h00 on weekends, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>To take part in the campaign, Uber users can enter the promo code: <strong>UBERUP<\/strong> to access the special.<\/p>\n<p>All Uber rides ordered this way (through the VW icon) will be completed in the new vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion only allows for two free trips, lasting no more than 20 minutes or 20km in duration or distance.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a maximum of three passengers per vehicle, Uber said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Uber<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Zomato links up with Uber in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/78031\/zomato-links-up-with-uber-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zomato links up with Uber in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Uber creates 2,000 jobs in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77993\/uber-creates-2000-jobs-in-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Uber creates 2,000 jobs in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cape Town clamps down on Uber: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/76711\/cape-town-clamps-down-on-uber-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cape Town clamps down on Uber: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is offering Joburg, Pretoria and Cape Town residents free Uber rides in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,6457,9547],"class_list":["post-80953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-uber","tag-vw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80953","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80963,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80953\/revisions\/80963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}