{"id":222550,"date":"2017-08-01T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=222550"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:14:21","slug":"project-isizwe-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/222550-project-isizwe-appoints-new-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Project Isizwe appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Isizwe has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectisizwe.org\/new-ceo-fully-committed-free-wifi-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointed a new CEO<\/a><\/strong>, Dudu Mkhwanazi.<\/p>\n<p>Project Isizwe is a non-profit organisation which believes the Internet should be an essential service subsidised by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhwanazi said she would continue to advocate for free Wi-Fi as a human right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject Isizwe is lobbying for ubiquitous, government-subsidised Internet access within a walking distance of every South African,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhwanazi holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy Analysis from Universit\u00e9 Montpellier and has a history of managing complex projects, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>Project Isizwe <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/213630-project-isizwe-might-lose-tshwanes-free-wi-fi-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>runs Tshwane&#8217;s free Wi-Fi services<\/strong><\/a>, but the city&#8217;s contracts are currently out to tender for a new service provider.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/217750-the-plan-to-rescue-tshwanes-free-wi-fi.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The plan to rescue Tshwane\u2019s free Wi-Fi<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Isizwe has appointed a new CEO, Dudu Mkhwanazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8553,45040,20971],"class_list":["post-222550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-ceo","tag-dudu-mkhwanazi","tag-project-isizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222552,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222550\/revisions\/222552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}