{"id":46039,"date":"2013-10-09T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46039\/new-residents-still-sparking-controversyoris-the-council-so-spineless\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T07:36:51","slug":"new-residents-still-sparking-controversyoris-the-council-so-spineless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/10\/09\/new-residents-still-sparking-controversyoris-the-council-so-spineless\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New residents&#8217; still sparking controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Pretorius, of Lambton, writes:<\/p>\n<p>I recently read an article in the GCN , &#8220;New residents seem set to stay&#8221;.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As a ratepayer I find this extremely upsetting and have to say I was shocked.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere to live?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>So vagrants will simply squat on council land and refuse to go until alternate housing is provided.<\/p>\n<p>Where does this sense of entitlement come from?<\/p>\n<p>The metro has just spent millions of Rand on beautifying the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 500 yards from the fountain gracing the entrance to the lake grounds there is the blight of the new Germiston Lake &#8220;residents&#8221; located at the weir.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is extremely unsightly, unhealthy and disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>Is the metro so spineless that it cannot and\/or won&#8217;t remove these vagrants?<\/p>\n<p>I hope this matter will be resolved soon.<\/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='92a763842faeaaa9e9fed136d596c597'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the council so spineless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,979,1143,1208,1002,1004,1167],"class_list":["post-46039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-lake","tag-letter","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Germiston Lake","letter","metro","municipality","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039","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=46039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}