{"id":18484,"date":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/18484\/something-fishy-in-klip-street\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:35:34","slug":"something-fishy-in-klip-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/09\/17\/something-fishy-in-klip-street\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Something fishy’ in Klip Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

“At night they dance in the street and intimidate passing cars.<\/p>\n

One woman did not have a single thread of clothing on. I had to push my child’s head under the dashboard to keep him from seeing it,” a resident in the area complained.<\/p>\n

Another woman who lives close by said that cars can be seen picking up women regularly.<\/p>\n

She also says that company bakkies are often seen pulling into the yard whereafter the gate is shut.<\/p>\n

“We all know that something fishy is happening there. And we all have a pretty good idea what it is, but there is very little we can do about it.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The house currently in the process of being sold.<\/p>\n

Whilst it is between owners, it has been rented out to a company who rents out rooms to individuals.<\/p>\n

The estate agent, Adri Beukes, said that she has been swamped with complaints about the new tenants.<\/p>\n

“The house stood empty for a long time and it was stripped by thieves for scrap metal.<\/p>\n

We decided to put people in to prevent that from happening again. The new owner is a decent person and she and her family will be moving in as soon as the paperwork is sorted out.”<\/p>\n

She said that the woman who is currently renting the house assured her that the rooms are occupied by “students”.<\/p>\n

The woman who is responsible for the tenants could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houses used as shelters from where prostitutes can conduct their business are popping up like mushrooms. Residents in Middelburg Central have complained about a house in Klip Street where “something fishy” is happening for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":18485,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"category_labels":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}