{"id":78538,"date":"2018-02-21T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=78538"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T09:51:43","slug":"breaking-optimum-lockdown-miners-tools-demand-answers-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/02\/21\/breaking-optimum-lockdown-miners-tools-demand-answers-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING – Optimum on lockdown, miners down tools, demand answers from Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optimum\u2019s water purification plant at Pullenshope, which supplies water to the town of Hendrina and Kwazamakuhle, remains on lockdown.<\/p>\n

The towns have been without a drop of water for the past two weeks, and sporadically since December.
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www.mobserver.co.za <\/b>journalists in the field at Optimum, Hendrina and Kwazamakuhle reports that tensions are running high and that a crisis meeting with mine workers will be held tomorrow, to address salary concerns.<\/p>\n

Water purification plant workers have warned that the water supply to Hendrina and Kwazamakuhle will have dry taps until they have been paid.<\/p>\n

Read previous stories here:<\/h3>\n

Gupta – Zuma: Hendrina without water after Optimum fails to pay workers, contractors<\/a><\/h4>\n

DA cries corruption over Optimum<\/a><\/h4>\n

Optimum in wealthy hands<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Optimum Mine employees downed tools indefinitely this morning, refusing to do any work until their concerns about future employment have been addressed by national government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":78540,"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],"tags":[10486,6928,1021,10533,5386,7592,2035,5657,10487],"class_list":["post-78538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-gupta","tag-gupta-owned-optimum-mine","tag-hendrina","tag-kwazamakuhle","tag-no-water","tag-optimum","tag-strike","tag-water-crisis","tag-zuma"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["gupta","Gupta-owned Optimum Mine","Hendrina","kwazamakuhle","No water","optimum","strike","water crisis","zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}