{"id":93573,"date":"2015-07-08T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93573\/who-can-residents-contact-when-rubbish-isnt-collected\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T08:50:48","slug":"who-can-residents-contact-when-rubbish-isnt-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/08\/who-can-residents-contact-when-rubbish-isnt-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can residents contact when rubbish isn\u2019t collected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a Rietfontein Road resident recently put her rubbish on the pavement to be collected, she didn\u2019t think it would sit there for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fuming,\u201d the resident, who does not wish to be named, told the GCN.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf my rubbish is not collected immediately I will have no choice but to illegally dump it somewhere, and if I am caught and fined I won\u2019t pay the fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro for answers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro, said: \u201cEmployees at the Germiston Waste Management Depot embarked on an<a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91670\/illegal-protest-slows-down-waste-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\"> illegal work stoppage <\/a>from June 9 to 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resulted in a large amount of rubbish not being collected as it should have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gadebe has assured residents that the work stoppage is over and rubbish collection will continue <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54307\/metro-moves-to-fixed-refuse-removal-systemorfixed-days-for-rubbish-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">as per the refuse calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll services have been up to date since Monday June 22,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Future complaints on non-collection of refuse can be reported to the following metro personnel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Francis Mphafane on 011 999-1267<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Maite Letsoalo on 011 999- 1274 or 082 787 6785<\/li>\n<li>Paula Mfuleni on 011 999-5432.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><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='12d50fbd2f96cce73d4035f996ab0fe3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman threatens to dump rubbish when metro fails to collect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53940,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,7811],"class_list":["post-93573","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-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-rubbish-collection"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","rubbish collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93573","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=93573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}