{"id":58361,"date":"2016-10-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/58361\/video-they-scavenge-to-survive-their-impoverished-existence\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:38:13","slug":"video-they-scavenge-to-survive-their-impoverished-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/20\/video-they-scavenge-to-survive-their-impoverished-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; They scavenge to survive their impoverished existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Middelburg\u2019s rubbish bag scavengers, who all rummage through our bags in order to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The Middelburg Observer newspaper tells the tale of a number of the scavengers this week, all of them tales which will grab readers by the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them formerly employed, retrenched and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They scavenge to survive their impoverished existence, Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-sX7eMsbhg?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>The follow the same route every week, from Monday to Wednesday to collect cans and bottles, and food and clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Buy this week\u2019s edition of the Middelburg Observer for the touching story.<\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/58289\/girl-17-arrested-for-killing-boyfriend-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girl (17) arrested \u2018for killing boyfriend\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/58272\/man-dood-ma-en-kind-ernstig-beseer-na-toyota-botsing-op-n4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man dood, ma en kind ernstig beseer na Toyota-botsing op N4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/58268\/gemeenskapsvergadering-vir-kanonkop-kiesers-n-belangrike-een\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Gemeenskapsvergadering vir Kanonkop kiesers\u2019n belangrike een<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/58244\/miljoene-liters-water-verlore-met-pyp-wat-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Miljoene lieters water verlore met pyp wat bars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/58099\/nuusflits-voertuig-tussen-voertuie-vasgedruk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Voetuig tussen trokke vasgedruk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 33658 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love them or hate them, they\u2019re not going anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":58362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder, Annie van Zyl, Zsaraeva Nel","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58361","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\/58361","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=58361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}