{"id":3066,"date":"2020-10-13T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=440309"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:45:55","slug":"gauteng-municipalities-are-a-mess-unpaid-bills-poor-oversight-and-more-wasteful-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/10\/13\/gauteng-municipalities-are-a-mess-unpaid-bills-poor-oversight-and-more-wasteful-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng municipalities are a mess \u2013 unpaid bills, poor oversight and more wasteful spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has raised concerns about the general state of municipalities in Gauteng, where water and power bills go unpaid, and wasteful spending is piling up with little oversight. <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/440309\/gauteng-municipalities-are-a-mess-unpaid-bills-poor-oversight-and-more-wasteful-spending\/\">Source: BusinessTech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has raised concerns about the general state of municipalities in Gauteng, where water and power bills go unpaid, and wasteful spending is piling up with little oversight. Source: BusinessTech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}