{"id":110584,"date":"2020-02-24T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110584"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:56:03","slug":"black-bag-mess-waste-collectors-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/24\/black-bag-mess-waste-collectors-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bag mess after waste collectors strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The waste backlog was caused by the go-slow workers staged last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The workers demanded that the municipality address the awarding of tenders, road worthlessness of their vehicles, shortage of trucks and personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Workers were also protesting against cadre deployment and outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is not clear whether all the waste collectors have returned to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Tshwete Local Municipality spokesperson, Prudence Magutle, said solid waste workers have collected the majority of the waste in the CBD however waste in some areas has not been collected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":110061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,23518,12898,23519,23515,23517,23516,10333],"class_list":["post-110584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-municipal-services","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-services","tag-municipal-waste-collectors-strike","tag-rubbish-not-collected-after-waste-collector-strike","tag-town-a-rubbish-dump-after-waste-collector-strike","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg municipal services","middelburg news","middelburg services","municipal waste collectors strike","rubbish not collected after waste collector strike","town a rubbish dump after waste collector strike","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110584","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=110584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}