{"id":101888,"date":"2019-09-16T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=101888"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T09:46:38","slug":"update-saps-confirms-optimum-conveyor-belt-destruction-caused-veld-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/16\/update-saps-confirms-optimum-conveyor-belt-destruction-caused-veld-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: SAPS confirms Optimum conveyor belt destruction caused by veld fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police also confirmed that rumours that the mine’s offices were also set alight, was false.<\/p>\n

Millions in damage was caused on Sunday afternoon when the rubber conveyor belts of Optimum caught fire.<\/p>\n

Also read: VIDEO: Shocking footage of Optimum Mine’s conveyor belt line going up in flames<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The fire started in the grass next to the conveyor line.<\/p>\n

The Steve Tshwete Municipality fire brigade contained the fire which destroyed the belt line.
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Www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0has tried contacting business rescue practitioners, Louis Klopper and Kurt Knoop, to ascertain the extent of the damage but both remained unreachable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hendrina police confirmed that the devastating fire that reduced embattled Optimum Mine’s conveyor belt line to ashes, was caused by a veld fire and not arson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":101864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1438,20813,10486,20686,10010,12898,20814,20816,10795,20815,10333],"class_list":["post-101888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fire","tag-fire-at-optimum-mine","tag-gupta","tag-gupta-mines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-optimum-conveyor-belt-on-fire","tag-optimum-fire-not-arson","tag-optimum-mine","tag-police-confirm-optimum-fire-caused-by-veldfire","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["fire","fire at optimum mine","gupta","gupta mines","local news","middelburg news","optimum conveyor belt on fire","optimum fire not arson","Optimum Mine","police confirm optimum fire caused by veldfire","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101888","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}