{"id":125861,"date":"2016-06-28T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125861\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-3\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:45:51","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/28\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say on this week\u2019s hot Facebook topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, June 18 to 24, were:<\/p>\n<p>1. SPCA tackles severe case of animal hoarding \u2014 43 dogs confiscated: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1120143838038320\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/28PJJrO<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In one of the most severe cases of animal hoarding ever encountered by the Germiston SPCA, 43 Maltese terriers were confiscated from a house in Sunnyridge, on June 7. Trainee inspector Thabang Mabaso received a complaint of overcrowding and dogs not being cared for adequately at a home in Sunnyridge. He managed to make contact with the owner and arranged to get access to the house on June 6. Upon his arrival, Mabaso was shocked to find a large number of Maltese terriers living inside the house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You said:<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Christine Mclaughlin, \u201cThey need to be prosecuted. I\u2019m sorry but a slap on the wrist and all dogs being removed is not enough. This is giving her\/him the opportunity to just go out and get more dogs, and then this time next year the SPCA will be back and remove dogs again.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stella Bedeaux, \u201cWhy are these people not prosecuted?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Boyes, \u201cThis is shocking. How does anyone live like that? Thank you to the SPCA.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Roads blocked by burning rubbish, tyres as residents protest: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1121346684584702\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/28RooN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protestors took to the streets surrounding the Makause informal settlement in Primrose, on Wednesday morning, burning tyres and rubbish. Stanley, Pretoria, Shamrock and Main Reef roads, around the settlement, were blocked off by rocks and piles of burning rubbish. EMPD officers stationed themselves at all the intersections to warn motorists and redirect traffic away from the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean Adlam, \u201cA never-ending story, they want houses, they want jobs, promises are made and not delivered on. But who do they continue to vote for?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Debbie Dodd, \u201cHow on earth could the municipality promise them houses? There are about 30 000 people living in there where would the money come from?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='e7349182e7fd37666d520a499bcb3762'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the conversation with the hot topics on Facebook this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":125862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-125861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}