{"id":78454,"date":"2013-05-22T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=78454"},"modified":"2013-05-22T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T10:49:59","slug":"anc-launches-cellphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/78454-anc-launches-cellphone-app.html","title":{"rendered":"ANC launches cellphone app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape <a title=\"ANC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/464137-African-National-Congress-ANC\">ANC<\/a> has launched a cellphone application to communicate with the province&#8217;s youth ahead of next year&#8217;s elections, The Cape Argus reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a society where, to reach the youth, social media platforms are most effective,&#8221; African National Congress provincial chairman <a title=\"Marius Fransman\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/532060-Marius-Fransman\">Marius Fransman<\/a> was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;myancwc&#8221; application reportedly went live on the social platform site <a title=\"Mxit\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226948-MXit\">Mxit<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mxit spokeswoman <a title=\"Sarah Rice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/532062-Sarah-Rice\">Sarah Rice<\/a> told the newspaper about 800 people had asked questions about the app within hours of its launch.<\/p>\n<p>She said there were a million Mxit users in the province, most of them aged between 18 and 24.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/78302-sonnet-project-app-brings-shakespeare-to-life.html\">Sonnet Project app brings Shakespeare to life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77970-revamped-google-maps-preview-announced.html\">Revamped Google Maps preview announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77934-900-million-android-devices-activated.html\">900 million Android devices activated<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77844-microsoft-says-os-update-to-be-called-windows-8-1.html\">Microsoft says OS update to be called Windows 8.1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape ANC has launched a cellphone app to communicate with the province&#8217;s youth ahead of next year&#8217;s elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78456,"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":[16],"tags":[569,7979],"class_list":["post-78454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-anc","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78454"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78468,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78454\/revisions\/78468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}