{"id":50023,"date":"2016-06-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/50023\/video-botshabelo-then-and-now\/"},"modified":"2016-06-03T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T10:48:11","slug":"video-botshabelo-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/02\/video-botshabelo-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"(Update) VIDEO: Botshabelo then, and now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit on Wednesday, all buildings except the church and the parsonage, had been tightly locked to avoid further vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>The church&#8217;s roof however has further collapsed since the initial collapse two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of the church&#8217;s roof is gone and structural damage to the church building is now an imminent threat to the original stained glass panels.<\/p>\n<p>The Observer retraced the steps of <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/49892\/video-update-botshabelo-church-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms Annerie Fitzgerald<\/a> on Wednesday, taking video shots of the places she visited in the 80&#8217;s, as part of a study towards a B-Tech degree.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/49892\/video-update-botshabelo-church-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\">footage<\/a> taken by Fitzgerald, the new footage clearly shows the systematic demise of the Place of Refuge.<\/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\/D6f03vJMW5g' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Read previous stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/49892\/video-update-botshabelo-church-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Video) Update: Botshabelo church collapse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48612\/all-roads-lead-to-botshabelo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: All roads lead to Botshabelo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48135\/mayor-weighs-in-on-botshabelo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Mayor weighs in on Botshabelo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/12868\/outrage-at-botshabelo-mining-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outrage at Botshabelo mining plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/24585\/botshabelo-spookdorp-van-verval\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Botshabelo \u2013 spookdorp van verval<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/24585\/botshabelo-spookdorp-van-verval\/\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nero is still fiddling while Rome burns, the Middelburg Observer can confirm in regards to the continued degradation of Botshabelo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50029,"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":[7,2,10],"tags":[1649,3656,4723,4783,4785,4781,1049,4784,4787,4789,4788,4786,4782,1088],"class_list":["post-50023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-botshabelo","tag-buildings","tag-church","tag-churchs-roof","tag-collapse","tag-continued-degradation","tag-danger","tag-further-collapsed","tag-imminent-threat","tag-ms-annerie-fitzgerald","tag-original-stained-glass-panels","tag-structural-damage","tag-vandalism","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Botshabelo","Buildings","church","church's roof","collapse","continued degradation","danger","further collapsed","imminent threat","Ms Annerie Fitzgerald","original stained glass panels","structural damage","vandalism","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023","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=50023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}