{"id":73403,"date":"2014-11-14T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73403\/man-finds-40-men-destroying-his-home\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T06:50:45","slug":"man-finds-40-men-destroying-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/14\/man-finds-40-men-destroying-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Man finds 40 men destroying his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were recently arrested by the Primrose police and charged with malicious damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested in the Makause informal settlement, after the complainant alleged that he left his home to attend to business in Boksburg.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As he left, he noticed a number of builders who were working near his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the complainant returned he found about 40 people, who were wearing red overalls, demolishing his structure.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen he asked what they were doing they referred him to their supervisor, who did not say anything thing except that they are from the Red Ants,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The man called for the police, who rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival the officers found and questioned the two supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither of the two men could explain properly why they were demolishing the complainant\u2019s structure and failed to produce any eviction order,\u201d added Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were arrested and later appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where their case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/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='7ed6d155cf29e2248d50bf264e2d2f7a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man returns home to find it has been destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1648,1106,979,5604,2730,1288,2187,999,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-73403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gauteng","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-new","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-makause-informal-settlement","tag-malicious-damage-to-property","tag-police","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","Gauteng","GCN","germiston","germiston city new","Leigh Hodgson","makause informal settlement","malicious damage to property","police","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73403","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=73403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}