{"id":166754,"date":"2017-11-19T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/166754\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-70\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T19:36:33","slug":"top-five-stories-of-the-week-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/19\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five stories of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top five stories on www.germistoncitynews.co.za for the week, November 11 to 17, were:<\/p>\n

Dog mutilated and skinned, SPCA offers reward to find perpetrators<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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The Germiston SPCA\u2019s trainee inspector, Taryn Bannister, made a horrifying discovery while on her way to collect some dogs, recently. Bannister was driving past the Marathon informal settlement when she saw a group of people surrounding what appeared to be a dog. She decided to investigate and found a cross-breed Africanus dog with one side of its body completely skinned and the organs hanging outside the body.<\/p>

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Man and woman arrested for money laundering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Officers from the Germiston Police Station got more than they bargained for when they pulled over a suspicious looking vehicle in Lambton, recently. \u201cThe officers were patrolling the Lambton area when they noticed a suspicious looking vehicle,\u201d explained Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS. Officers searched the vehicle and its 37-year-old male and 34-year-old female occupants and were surprised to find official Home Affairs documents, asylum documents, 34 ID books and an undisclosed amount of cash.<\/p>\n

Water will be off in some Germiston areas from Saturday evening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The metro warned of a scheduled water shutdown last Saturday, which affected parts of Germiston and Boksburg from 6pm in the evening to 6am the next day.<\/p>\n

Final exam with a difference<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Matrics across the country began their final exams recently. But for Caitlin Sehannie, a matric learner at Edenglen High School, things were a little different. The Grade 12 student had to write her final Afrikaans paper in a hospital bed at the Life Roseacres Hospital.<\/p>\n

Beware of flakka, the \u2018zombie drug\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A highly dangerous yet relatively cheap drug has reportedly reared its ugly head in South Africa. Flakka is a chemical compound originally synthesised in the 1960s. It is known as next generation \u201cbath salts\u201d, a group of related synthetic drugs that was banned in 2012.<\/p>\n

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Catch-up on more local news with our sister newspapers\u00a0<\/span>Bedfordview Edenvale News<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>Alberton Record<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Kempton Express<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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