{"id":237451,"date":"2020-03-15T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/237451\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-169\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:02:21","slug":"top-five-stories-of-the-week-169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/15\/top-five-stories-of-the-week-169\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five stories of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top five stories on www.germistoncitynews.co.za for the week, March 7 to 13, were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/235465\/three-men-shot-in-webber-road-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Triple murder suspected to be linked to taxi violence<\/strong><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Germiston police are investigating a triple murder after three people were shot last Friday morning in Lambton. Police suspect that the shooting is related to taxi violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/236789\/criminals-targeted-in-primrose-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Criminals targeted in Primrose<\/strong><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Primrose police arrested 12 suspects between March 5 and 11. This is according to the latest arrest statistics released by the station.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/236101\/car-crashes-into-wall-leaving-two-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Car crashes into wall in Wadeville leaving two dead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) team from Wadeville Fire Station rushed to the scene of an accident at 10.30am recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/235524\/can-jump-wall-trouble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>If you can jump over your wall you are in trouble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can get into your premises without any trouble, you are in trouble. That is the message from Fidelity ADT following an incident of theft at a business premises in Roodekop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/236104\/people-make-beds-people-dont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>People who make their beds and people who don\u2019t<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A survey of 2 000 Americans, commissioned by the sleep research site Sleepopolis, found that people who make their beds tend to be adventurous, confident, sociable and high-maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Hav<\/strong><strong>e 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 class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-admin\/germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za\">germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za,<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Leigh Hodgson (News Editor)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"mailto:leighh@caxton.co.za\">leighh@caxton.co.za\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>or Busi Vilakazi (Journalist)\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"mailto:busiv@caxton.co.za\"><strong>busiv@caxton.co.za<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Also follow us on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-210323\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/07\/Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCNnews?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-210324\" 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