{"id":137193,"date":"2016-11-03T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137193\/senior-citizens-encouraged-to-stand-up-for-their-rights\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:31:16","slug":"senior-citizens-encouraged-to-stand-up-for-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/03\/senior-citizens-encouraged-to-stand-up-for-their-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior citizens encouraged to stand up for their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police, together with representatives from several local and government organisations, recently hosted a senior citizens awareness campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was held at the Fire of God Ministry Church in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The event was attended by speakers from the Department of Social Development, SAPS, SASSA, Home Affairs, the Department of Health and the Germiston Association for the Aged, who spoke to the elderly about the services each organisation offers.<\/p>\n<p>The executive mayor Clr Mzwandile Masina was also at the gathering to speak to the residents about problems they are experiencing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the campaign Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police, gave those in attendance some vital safety tips and advised the senior citizens to report abuse by their own children.<\/p>\n<p>Maome also encouraged the elderly to report any criminal activities in their area to the police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135476\/elderly-enjoy-fun-and-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elderly enjoy fun and games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133952\/association-cares-for-the-elderly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association cares for the elderly<\/a><\/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='c28f736b510780433a8185bf7f3af999'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police host senior citizens awareness campaign in Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":137194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-137193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137193","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=137193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}