{"id":33124,"date":"2015-08-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/33124\/department-joins-with-nkosi-family\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:12:14","slug":"department-joins-with-nkosi-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/20\/department-joins-with-nkosi-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Department joins with Nkosi family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petition came after a tragic accident in Walter Sisulu Street early this month where a brand new Golf 7 was sliced into two by a tree; the accident claimed the lives of an adult, three children and left one child wheelchair bound.<\/p>\n<p>A church service was held at the St Peters church in Mhluzi, that the parents of the three deceased children attended.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Spiwe Nkosi spoke to the Observer on video on the aftermath of the accident and how the family feels about the petition.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wZecK4GPYl8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32306\/he-loved-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Dennesig loses three pupils<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32170\/3-children-dead-after-tree-slices-through-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">3 children dead after tree slices through car<\/a><\/p>\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> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Road and Transport with the effort to assist in improving road safety have put together a petition: \u201c1 million signature campaign to the declaration of a national prayer day for road safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":33125,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33124","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=33124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}