{"id":116471,"date":"2020-04-10T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=116471"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:09:10","slug":"keeping-busy-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/04\/10\/keeping-busy-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping busy in lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DA Parlementslid me. Annerie Weber:<\/b><br \/>\nMe. Weber het voor die spertyd vir landwye afsondering, uit die Kaap uit teruggekeer na Middelburg, waar sy haarself tans afsonder saam met haar bejaarde ouers vir wie sy sorg.<\/p>\n<p>Sy beperk haar beweging ten spyte van \u2019n permit wat haar in staat stel om te ry en haar gemeenskap as parlementslid by te staan.<br \/>\n\u201cEk is betrokke by twee nie-regeringsorganisasies wat kos aan bejaardes en minderbevoorregtes uitdeel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tydens afsondering, hou sy haarself besig met maskers maak, wat sy dan sal uitdeel waar dit nodig is, weens \u2019n tekort in di\u00e9 mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoewel ons almal \u2019n plig het om die land veilig te hou, is menslikheid steeds die fondasie van ons samelewing en God sal my lei na waar ek nodig is,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116473\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116473\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200331-WA0010-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200331-WA0010-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200331-WA0010-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DA parlementslid me. Annerie Weber gebruik di\u00e9 tyd om gesigmaskers te maak, en sommer die DA daardeur te bevorder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Hospice suster me. Judy Toua:<\/b><br \/>\nMe. Toua, en \u2019n kollega, ondersteun steeds kankerpasi\u00ebnte wat chemoterapie in eMalahleni ondergaan, maar ontmoet die pasi\u00ebnte by die hospitaal.<\/p>\n<p>Sy het die verskaffing van beddens tydens die afsonderingstydperk gestaak, maar besoek steeds kritieke en sterwende kankerpasi\u00ebnte by hul huise.<\/p>\n<p>Tussendeur sonder sy haarself af, soos die res van die land, sodat sy in haar hoedanigheid as Hospice verteenwoordiger, haar pasi\u00ebnte en gesinne teen infeksie kan beskerm.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Former Mayor, Mr Mike Masina:<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cThe hail storm has left me with enough gardening work for some time,\u201d Mr Masina chuckled. Apart from gardening, he thoroughly enjoys spending time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs politician and mayor I had to spread myself very thinly, now I have been afforded time to spend with my family and I really appreciate this opportunity,\u201d Mr Masina says.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his own personal spiritual time, Mr Masina says he prays three times daily with his family, for their health and that of all South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray at 08:00, again at lunch and at 15:00 every day,\u201d he said. \u201cI constantly listen to the radio, apart from spending quality time with my family, they make everything better and I love them!\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to three residents, these Middelburgers tell us how they have been spending their time in lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":116472,"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":[19379,24322,24321,10010,12898,3631,10333],"class_list":["post-116471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-annerie-weber","tag-judy-toua","tag-keeping-busy-during-lockdown","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-mike-masina","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["annerie weber","judy toua","keeping busy during lockdown","local news","middelburg news","Mike Masina","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471","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=116471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}