{"id":6627,"date":"2018-10-22T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sztando.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2021-01-17T05:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T04:35:24","slug":"i-am-examining-mayors-from-african-countries-at-the-wits-school-of-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/?p=6627&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"I am examining mayors from African countries at the Wits School of Governance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law of South Africa\u00a0\ufe0fand some other countries requires that people employed in some senior positions in self-governments should first complete appropriate studies, e.g. in the field of study &#8220;Local economic development manager&#8221;. Is this how it should be in Poland? During my stay at the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/wsg\/\">Wits School of Governance<\/a> being part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\">Wits &#8211; University of the Witwatersrand<\/a> in Johannesburg, I participated in the commission assessing the diploma thesis of mayors-students from South Africa, Namibia, Bostwana, Kenya and Angola. The Wits School of Governance is a leading public administration school on this continent, whose students are prime ministers, ministers, city presidents, mayors and other high-profile public managers from all over Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am examining mayors from African countries at the Wits School of Governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sztando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}