{"id":31722,"date":"2015-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/31722\/leaking-sewerage-in-park\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:55:21","slug":"leaking-sewerage-in-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2015\/07\/20\/leaking-sewerage-in-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Leaking sewerage in park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents claim to have called the Municipality a number of times pleading for assistance, they claim the workers come but don&#8217;t do any work.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Martha Sibande, an elderly citizen living just next to where the sewerage is leaking, claims she was admitted to hospital last week due to the smell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the employees told me they were waiting for tools on Monday and on Tuesday they say they got lost,&#8221; claimed Mrs Sibande.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leaking sewerage in park, Hlalamnandi Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q02mrHw_-mI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just come here to sit in the sun. When I approached the one guy he told me he has vast experience and advised to hire a local handyman known as Peter Dibakwane for the job&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mrs Prudence Magutle, Head of Communications at the Steve Tshwete Municipality, the municipality attended to the leak and discovered that old shoes dumped in it by the community.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the children playing in the park despite the sewerage is available on www.mobserver.co.za .<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31722 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2015\/07\/20\/leaking-sewerage-in-park\/attachment\/img_863_634878382\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/IMG_863_634878382-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-31723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/IMG_863_634878382-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/IMG_863_634878382-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/IMG_863_634878382.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-31723'>\n\t\t\t\tGogo Martha Sibande pointing at the leaking sewerage right next to her shack.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post\" class=\"post-30951 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news-general content-print\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children in Hlalamnandi are forced to play in a park flooded with sewerage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":31724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31722","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\/31722","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=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}