{"id":91670,"date":"2015-06-11T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=91670"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T07:45:19","slug":"illegal-protest-slows-down-waste-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/11\/illegal-protest-slows-down-waste-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal protest slows down waste collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro will today (June 11) institute contingency plans to collect waste in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the illegal downing of tools by Germiston waste department officials on Tuesday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe plead with residents to put their bins outside and to exercise patience in confidence that we are attending to the issue,\u201d said spokesman for the metro, Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>The officials are protesting against the process being used to renew a contractor which was cleaning the Germiston CBD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The protest is illegal and waste workers are warned against partaking in illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality apologises for the inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n<p>Other metro articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91625\/faulty-cable-results-in-power-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faulty cable results in power outage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91043\/planned-power-supply-interruption-for-parts-of-germiston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planned power supply interruption for parts of Germiston<\/a><\/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='4086b9fa102255bb55e00aa1bf898124'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro puts plans in place to collect Germiston\u2019s rubbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":91671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,979,1131,969,7589,2734,1002,1004,7588],"class_list":["post-91670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-illegal-strike","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-waste-removal"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","Germiston CBD","germiston city news","illegal strike","melissa hart","metro","municipality","waste removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}