{"id":261,"date":"2026-06-09T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/?p=261"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:33:48","slug":"if-you-were-in-the-same-situation-would-you-vote-for-a-better-different-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/if-you-were-in-the-same-situation-would-you-vote-for-a-better-different-party\/","title":{"rendered":"If you were in the same situation would you vote for a better\/different party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACDP Councillor Lance Grootboom said last night; &#8220;We spend R7.8-billion buying power from Eskom, but we only recover R6.9-billion. You are draining the hard-earned money of honest, paying citizens to cross-subsidise lawlessness! It is pure administrative failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He put it politely without pointing fingers at our present Lords (Ladies) and Masters.<\/p>\n<p>For once in your life I dare you to meaningfully engage with your staff &#8211; especifically those staff members in low paying menial jobs that stay in what we used to call the &#8216;townships&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Gently coach them around to the touchy subject of electricity and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Full Article:<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/stop-pussyfooting-around-stolen-electricity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/stop-pussyfooting-around-stolen-electricity\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Video:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<h3><strong>Contact Alan Straton<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>&#8216;Advertise&#8217; Your Article for free:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/submit\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to drop a link and short description to your published work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACDP Councillor Lance Grootboom said last night; &#8220;We spend R7.8-billion buying power from Eskom, but we only recover R6.9-billion. You are draining the hard-earned money of honest, paying citizens to cross-subsidise lawlessness! It is pure administrative failure.&#8221; He put it politely without pointing fingers at our present Lords (Ladies) and Masters. For once in your &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["type-post","category-journalists","tag-mynmb","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}