{"id":102491,"date":"2019-09-26T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=102491"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:20:03","slug":"imstaying-middelburg-car-guards-show-spirit-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/26\/imstaying-middelburg-car-guards-show-spirit-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"#I&#8217;mStaying: Middelburg car guards show the spirit of Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who have the true spirit of Africa burning in their chests, are now publicly announcing the 101 reasons why they are staying in South Africa.<br \/>\nWith so much attention given to the negative outlooks on our country, it\u2019s a nice change.<\/p>\n<p>The very diverse town of Middelburg has plenty of its own reasons why we should stop reasoning that immigration is the only option.<br \/>\nThree very honest and reliable car guards are just one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long ago,\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0covered a story on Joseph Msiza, a car guard at the Imbali Shopping Centre, who handed over a wallet with over R3 500 in it, five days after the owner lost it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101528\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101528\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/Joseph-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/Joseph-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/Joseph-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Msiza at his post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two weeks later, another resident came forward to share a similar, very encouraging, story.<\/p>\n<p>Mr and Mrs Austin went shopping at The Oaks Centre in Lilian Ngoyi Street. Upon their arrival, Mr Austin\u2019s cellphone fell out in the parking area, without him noticing, and the couple went into Clicks.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing, friends of theirs called them to alert the Austins that a couple of car guards were looking for them.<\/p>\n<p>Thabo Godfrey Maphanga and Alex Dlamini, both guards at the centre, had picked up the lost cellphone and proceeded to redial the last called number.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Austin, who was celebrating her birthday on the day, explained what a pleasant surprise it was to have their belongings returned to them.<br \/>\nShe explained that it was like a birthday present from someone she didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>The Austins know Thabo through their visits to the centre and laud him for his friendliness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always ensures I safely enter the building when I visit the centre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Austin couple wishes to thank Thabo and Alex for their act of kindness and awarded them with a gift for their honesty.<\/p>\n<p>#I\u2019mStaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a whole new movement sweeping through social media, keynoted as #I\u2019mStaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":102492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[21024,21025,21029,20591,21026,21027,20589,10010,12898,21030,21031,21028,10333],"class_list":["post-102491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-imstaying","tag-imstaying-movement","tag-alex-dlamini","tag-honest-car-guard-returns-lost-wallet","tag-honest-car-guards","tag-honest-car-guards-return-lost-cellphone","tag-joseph-msiza","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-reasons-to-love-south-africa","tag-reasons-to-stay-in-sa","tag-thabo-godfrey-maphanga","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["#ImStaying","#ImStaying movement","Alex Dlamini","honest car guard returns lost wallet","honest car guards","honest car guards return lost cellphone","joseph msiza","local news","middelburg news","Reasons to love south africa","reasons to stay in SA","Thabo Godfrey Maphanga","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102491","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=102491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}