{"id":919280,"date":"2022-01-24T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/former-mayor-now-an-uber-driver\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:04:53","slug":"former-mayor-now-an-uber-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/former-mayor-now-an-uber-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mayor now an uber driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5d3baf85d01f44beb6d61812c6e45acf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Ekurhuleni mayor the African National Congress has revealed on Twitter that he is now an uber driver. Mzwandile Masina who was ousted by Democratic Alliance mayor, Tania Campbell revealed this to his 250 000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>He stated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Having lost income from my previous deployment, I wish to announce that I have found a job as an Uber driver. Those who professed my future with Uber were not far off. Let us rejoice the lord. You can&#8217;t put a good man down.<\/p>\n<p>Masina served for 5 years in his role but could not win a second term. He had been chairperson of the ANC for Ekurhuleni prior to that, a member of parliament and a former deputy minister of Trade and Industry. He is a very public supporter of former President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5e7f0d50a73146c9ba5d7432ab564818\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Uber earnings are a major decrease to the earnings he got as mayor. An uber driver makes about R60 000 according za.indeed.com, while an executive mayor at a major municipality like Ekurhuleni can make about R1.5 million a year. It appears the mayor has fallen on very hard times. Or has he? Some believe he might be joking. Check out their responses:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/d29ed01d82184a1a96fd191300432956?quality=uhq&amp;resize=720\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5de31060179d4ed49209fcc71aadd20d\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/84854448433948cdad6a0d6aa23212db\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/12274a0204c64123a5fcec3e9aa86c80?quality=uhq&amp;resize=720\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Having lost income from my previous deployment, I wish to announce I\u2019ve found a new Job as an Uber driver. Those who professed my future with Uber were actually not far off. Let us rejoice the Lord. You can\u2019t put a good man down \ud83e\udd2a\ud83e\udd2a\ud83e\udd2a\ud83e\udd2a<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mzwandile Masina (@mzwandileMasina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mzwandileMasina\/status\/1485621371858309121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AM_report (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrican National Congress<br \/>\nEkurhuleni<br \/>\nJacob Zuma<br \/>\nMzwandile Masina<br \/>\nUber<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ekurhuleni mayor the African National Congress has revealed on Twitter that he is now an uber driver. Mzwandile Masina who was ousted by Democratic Alliance mayor, Tania Campbell revealed this to his 250 000 followers. He stated: &#8221; Having lost income from my previous deployment, I wish to announce that I have found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}