{"id":184982,"date":"2018-08-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/184982\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-104\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T08:51:17","slug":"top-five-stories-of-the-week-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/19\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five stories of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top five stories on www.germistoncitynews.co.za for the week, August 11 to 17, were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/184872\/watch-protestors-descend-germiston-demanding-permanent-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Protestors descend on Germiston demanding permanent jobs<\/strong><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Traffic in the Germiston CBD was affected by a protest march taking place in the city on Thursday. The protestors were demanding to speak to the metro\u2019s mayor, Mzwandile Masina, the city manager, Dr Imogen Mashazi and the HOD of the metro\u2019s Department of Solid Waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/184443\/wadeville-recycling-company-fire-leads-to-multi-suburb-power-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eskom power lines damaged in Wadeville recycling company fire causes widespread power outage<\/a><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Many Germiston suburbs were plunged into darkness after a fire broke out at a Wadeville recycling company recently. The fire spread through dozens of cardboard bales stored on the Commercial Road company\u2019s premises under the overhead Eskom power lines and burnt and damaged the lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/184674\/rand-airport-home-to-one-of-four-starliners-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rand Airport home to one of four Starliners in the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a cloudy Wednesday morning when the fuselage and wings of the Lockheed L1649A Starliner would again be joined. The reassembly took place at Phoebus Apollo Aviation in hangar 17 at Rand Airport. Also known as Connie, the historic aircraft is one of 44 built, and one of four that survive today across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/184289\/get-ready-for-some-high-flying-action\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get ready for some high-flying action<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rand Airshow took flight once again from Rand Airport, on August 19. The programme, which makes for a great family day out of the house, was made up of displays from Harvards, Pitts Specials, a Dakota, the Silver Falcons, Trojans, the P-51 \u201cMustang Sally\u201d and many more \u2013 all flown by highly skilled pilots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/176815\/follow-these-three-steps-to-register-your-early-childhood-development-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow these three steps to register your early childhood development facility<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is your child\u2019s cr\u00e8che fully equipped to take care of your little one? This is one of the questions parents need to ask themselves when sending their child to an early childhood development (ECD) facility. Registration with the metro is one of the indications that the facility you entrust with the care of your child is safe and capable of providing such care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Have a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Contact the newsroom by emailing: Melissa Hart (Editor)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-admin\/germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za\">germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>or Leigh Hodgson (News Editor)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"mailto:leighh@caxton.co.za\">leighh@caxton.co.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0Kgotsofalang Mashilo (journalist)\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kgotsofalangm@caxton.co.za\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>kgotsofalangm@caxton.co.za<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Remember to visit the Germiston City News on the following social media platforms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCNnews\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/germistoncitynews\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCblgxW6BRXTLGLQvpcumLqA\">YouTube\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or add the GCN on<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong>WhatsApp 079 406 1181<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<strong>BBM (BBM Pin: 7F102137)<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>today, to get all the latest news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Catch-up on more local news with our sister newspapers<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/\">Bedfordview Edenvale News<\/a><\/strong>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/\">Alberton Record<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/\">Kempton Express<\/a><\/strong>.<\/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='8ed2722c75997e46bf455730de007fb3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed this week\u2019s top stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":184983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Germiston City News ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,2362],"class_list":["post-184982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184982","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=184982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}