{"id":19955,"date":"2015-08-05T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19955"},"modified":"2015-08-06T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T06:54:33","slug":"harrismith-a-nuclear-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19955","title":{"rendered":"Harrismith a &#8216;nuclear wasteland&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to disgruntled community members in Harrismith, the town looks like a nuclear waste-land.<\/p>\n<p>This after the Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality failed to collect refuse for the past several months, resulting in a pile-up of refuse in the town, its suburbs and surrounding townships. <\/p>\n<p>The municipality&#8217;s temporary solutions are ineffective say inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Qwa Qwa and Kestell are also affected. According to Kleynhans service delivery in Maluti-a-Phofung has completely collapsed. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Vusi Tshabalala&#8217;s has not responded to questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to disgruntled community members in Harrismith, the town looks like a nuclear waste-land. This after the Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality failed to collect refuse for the past several months, resulting in a pile-up of refuse in the town, its suburbs and surrounding townships. The municipality&#8217;s temporary solutions are ineffective say inhabitants. Qwa Qwa and Kestell are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harrismith a &#8216;nuclear wasteland&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,10698,12181,12018],"class_list":["post-19955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-harrismith","tag-refuse","tag-waste"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/waste.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19957,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19955\/revisions\/19957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}