{"id":143012,"date":"2017-02-01T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143012\/keep-the-park-clean\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:17:31","slug":"keep-the-park-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/01\/keep-the-park-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the park clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xolani Mnyiphika, an employee at the metro\u2019s parks department, raised his concerns about the park in Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>Mnyiphika said he is not happy about the condition of the park found on Main Road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are employed to cut grass at various parks, with the Fishers\u2019 Hill park being one of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just saddened by the condition we find the park in every time we come for the regular cutting and maintenance.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn countless occasions we have come across bottles, glass, plastic and other rubbish, which makes it very difficult for us to cut the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mnyiphika said they also find tree branches lying around at the park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also noted that people cut tree branches and we don\u2019t know why they do that or what they use them for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appeal to all Primrose residents and users of the park to take care of the park in order for everyone to enjoy its benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are dustbins at the park; please use them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis message is not only for Primrose residents but to everyone. Please keep our parks clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might also want to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143121\/insults-allegations-and-chaos-mar-meeting\/\">Councillor will not be suspended during assault investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142776\/stormwater-drainage-leaves-residents-in-the-lurch\/\">Stormwater drainage leaves residents in the lurch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142715\/metro-increases-police-precincts-as-it-takes-crime-battle-to-zonkizizwe\/\">Zonkizizwe now has its own police precinct<\/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='8098c349f6df60b877c7f1e280a76760'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are urged to keep the park clean at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[13556,1106,979,969,13557,1686,6588,1000,13555,2749],"class_list":["post-143012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fishers-hill-park","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-metros-parks-department","tag-park","tag-parks","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-parks","tag-puleng-sekabate"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Fishers\u2019 Hill park","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","metro's parks department","Park","parks","primrose","primrose parks","Puleng Sekabate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143012","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=143012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}