{"id":73042,"date":"2014-11-10T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73042\/metro-investigates-stage-collapse\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:18:38","slug":"metro-investigates-stage-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/10\/metro-investigates-stage-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage collapses injuring 57 choir members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of an unfortunate incident which took place on Sunday at the Klopper Park Community Centre, the metro has launched a full scale investigation to determine the cause of the collapse of the stage during a choir performance.<\/p>\n<p>The community hall was booked for a church service, during which praise and worship sessions were held involving members of the choir singing and dancing on the stage.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>At approximately 1.30pm the stage gave in, with choir members on it.<\/p>\n<p>The caretaker on duty immediately contacted emergency services for help and 57 choir members were assessed by paramedics and taken to hospital soon after.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The organisers of the church service have today confirmed that all of the injured choristers have been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ekurhuleni Metro regrets the incident and wishes all those who were injured a speedy recovery,&#8221; said Ekurhuleni mayoral spokesman, Zweli Dlamini.<\/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='c2f2e31a6d643665cdaa15dd4ba3919d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro to investigate stage collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1130,1472,4682,1003,979,969,3432,4247,2734,1002,1004,5508],"class_list":["post-73042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-choir","tag-church-service","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-klopper-park","tag-klopper-park-community-centre","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-stage-collapse"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","choir","church service","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","klopper park","Klopper Park Community Centre","melissa hart","metro","municipality","stage collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73042","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=73042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}