{"id":10021,"date":"2014-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/10021\/abide-by-the-laws\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T09:00:16","slug":"abide-by-the-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/05\/06\/abide-by-the-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Another Traditional Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Please come take a look, it has been going on for two days now. We cannot sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A marquee tent, erected in the front yard of one of the houses, accompanied by loud music and a large number of guests parking where ever they found a spot had residents irritated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were parking everywhere on our lawns and even sitting and eating in our driveways,&#8221; one person living in the street said.<\/p>\n<p>When the Middelburg Observer was notified and went to investigate, the party was over, most of the guests left and tables were being packed up.<\/p>\n<p>Cars however could be seen lining one side of the street.<\/p>\n<p>See VIDEO here:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5pBHYBvjG7I' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>A debate on Facebook about a previous report on a wedding in Pongola Street in Aerorand, has opposing views.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Liezl Oosthuizen said that no one should force their culture on someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pontsho Gangazhe: &#8221; Don&#8217;t see anything wrong with it, as long as you notify your neighbours and the loud music is cut off at a certain time and slaughter at the back of the house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Triton Phoenix said &#8220;It would have been nice to have been notified just out of pure etiquette. Anyone and everyone deserves a party now and then.<\/p>\n<p>The slaughtering of sheep&#8230; well to us it&#8217;s inhumane and to others it&#8217;s culture. And I love the culture just not the slaughtering of sheep. There needs to be a fine line of fairness in the slaughtering of sheep within the suburbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sally Muller said that she thinks the neighbours that held the party should be tolerated. &#8220;Surely they don&#8217;t do it every weekend? And if they want to slaughter a sheep let them, it is their culture after all. Let the sun shine on everyone &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jane O&#8217;Brien: &#8220;We live at Rietkuil and our neighbours had it a few years ago. They had the decency to let us know before it happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yusuf Joe Tarmohammed said &#8220;Even licensed party houses and clubs have a cut off time for many reasons that don&#8217;t even need to apply to a residential area. It is morally just wrong to do as you feel is right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous caller in Populier Street in Kanonkop complained on Sunday about yet another traditional ceremony held in their street over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Botha","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1365,1363,1364,920],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disturbance","tag-pongola-street","tag-populier-street","tag-steve-tshwete-municipality"],"category_labels":null,"tag_labels":["disturbance","Pongola street","Populier street","Steve Tshwete Municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}