{"id":98816,"date":"2015-09-07T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/98816\/have-your-say-about-this-weeks-hot-topics\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T07:53:55","slug":"have-your-say-about-this-weeks-hot-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/07\/have-your-say-about-this-weeks-hot-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say about this week\u2019s hot topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, August 29 to September 4, were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Shoot-out on N12 leaves three seriously wounded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/959680740751298\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1LZnm2Z<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98818\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMESHOTMH1_02241.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three alleged hijackers were shot and seriously wounded on the N12 highway, last Tuesday, September 1, just before the Jet Park, Boksburg off-ramp. According to the GCN\u2019s sister newspaper, the Boksburg Advertiser, five alleged hijackers were arrested by the police after the shoot-out.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Ann Rose, \u201cI hope that helicopter is not there to airlift the wounded criminals to hospital. A waste of tax payers money.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Lungan Dladla, \u201cCriminals must not get medical treatment.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Nigerian couple nabbed for possession of dagga: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/958678480851524\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1L95hK0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98817\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/36GCNCRIMEDRUGMH_91507.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent complaint attended to by the EMPD Germiston Crime Prevention Task Team members uncovered dagga and other unspecified drugs at a house.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Leonora Laughton, \u201cCatch them all. There is a huge drug abuse problem in the East Rand. It is sad to see beautiful people with so much potential, throw away their lives.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Debbie Dodd, \u201cDeport them.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='b89335a03ea138105ec156283f3a4b3e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":98817,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-98816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98816","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=98816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}