{"id":27559,"date":"2020-07-08T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2020-07-09T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T11:28:37","slug":"south-africa-municipality-wont-remove-former-mayor-despite-home-affairs-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-municipality-wont-remove-former-mayor-despite-home-affairs-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Municipality won\u2019t remove former mayor, despite home affairs demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanduxolo Jika<\/p>\n

The home affairs department has given a Free State municipality an ultimatum to remove former executive mayor Nthateng Maoke from its payroll because she continues to draw a salary as an ordinary councillor, despite having been found to be an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n

In a strongly worded letter to the Setsoto council\u2019s speaker Krog Mokhuoane two weeks ago, the department said that the municipality\u2019s continued employment of Maoke, whom it found during an investigation last year to be a Lesotho national, was in violation of the Immigration Act.<\/p>\n

But Maoke is fighting back. Through her lawyers, she has interdicted the government from arresting her or deporting her to Lesotho.<\/p>\n

Read further: https:\/\/mg.co.za\/politics\/2020-07-08-municipality-wont-remove-former-mayor-despite-home-affairs-demands\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanduxolo Jika The home affairs department has given a Free State municipality an ultimatum to remove former executive mayor Nthateng Maoke from its payroll because she continues to draw a salary as an ordinary councillor, despite having been found to be an illegal immigrant. In a strongly worded letter to the Setsoto council\u2019s speaker Krog […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-668","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27560,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions\/27560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}