{"id":68157,"date":"2014-09-08T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/68157\/weeks-without-rubbish-collection\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:12:47","slug":"weeks-without-rubbish-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/08\/weeks-without-rubbish-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeks without rubbish collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Casbah Roadhouse, on Rietfontein Road, in Primrose, is a popular eatery with a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the rubbish generated by the establishment has not been collected for several weeks.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When the owner attempted to stop the refuse collection service personnel to get them to collect the piled up rubbish heap, he was told that the road house doesn\u2019t fall into their area.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN sent an urgent email to the metro to ask:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What can be done about this situation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When will the rubbish be collected?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lebogang Ramashala, of the metro\u2019s department of communications and brand management, responded to the query with the following statement: \u201cThe Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has contacted the consumer and made an arrangement for a new service to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents can contact the numbers printed on their refuse removal calendar for any complaints or enquiries on their waste removal service.\u201d<\/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='b71ecc3677e6825a62dbda1fe8ca0ca5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can a business function when its refuse is not collected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":68210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,4135,2730,1002,1004,2908,4691,4692],"class_list":["post-68157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-in-primrose","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-refuse-collection","tag-rietfontein-road","tag-the-casbah-road-house"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","in Primrose","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","refuse collection","rietfontein road","The Casbah Road House"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157","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=68157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}