{"id":114537,"date":"2020-03-30T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=114537"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:25:15","slug":"middelburgs-homeless-moved-safer-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/30\/middelburgs-homeless-moved-safer-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg&#8217;s homeless moved to safer location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was not well received by the group of about 100 homeless people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114540\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-1-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They were transported with the help of DA Ward Councillor, Damien Klopper&#8217;s truck and police vehicles to a nearby church ground where security is better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114539\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/homeless-2-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Municipal officials, ward councillors, members of sector 1 Community Policing Forum, Middelburg SAPS and the fire department were present during the move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was decided that the Middelburg homeless community should be moved from their shelters at Kees Taljaard Stadium to a safer location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":114538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23676,23726,24094,10010,24093,12898,24092,10333],"class_list":["post-114537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-homeless-moved-to-safer-location-during-lockdown","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-homeless-sheltered-at-kees-taljaard-during-lockdown","tag-middelburg-news","tag-shelters-for-homeless-during-covid-19-lockdown","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Coronavirus","Covid-19","homeless moved to safer location during lockdown","local news","middelburg homeless sheltered at kees taljaard during lockdown","middelburg news","shelters for homeless during covid 19 lockdown","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114537","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=114537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}