{"id":1303,"date":"2011-05-18T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:41:48","slug":"iec-calls-on-all-south-africans-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/iec-calls-on-all-south-africans-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC calls on all South Africans to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; The Chairperson of the IEC, Dr Brigalia Bam, has called on all in a position of authority to allow their fellow South Africans time off to visit their voting station on Election Day to exercise their democratic right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>This following a number of queries received by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on whether Election Day is a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Jacob Zuma declared 18 May 2011 as a public holiday on 16 March 2011. The purpose of declaring it a public holiday is to enable all registered voters to participate in the municipal elections by casting their vote at their voting station,&#8221; the IEC said in a statement. &#8211; BuaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; The Chairperson of the IEC, Dr Brigalia Bam, has called on all in a position of authority to allow their fellow South Africans time off to visit their voting station on Election Day to exercise their democratic right to vote. This following a number of queries received by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[488,443,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-brigalia-bam","8":"tag-iec","9":"tag-local-elections","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}