{"id":964187,"date":"2024-07-03T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964187"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:22:47","slug":"955799-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/955799-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of Cape Town hit by heavy rains, flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cape Town says 170 people have been affected by flooding at the Vygieskraal informal settlement in Athlone.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Service earlier issued a level two warning for disruptive rains and strong winds across the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Western Cape Tomorrow &#8216;s Weather overview: 04\/07\/2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gF4u2hWsWA\">pic.twitter.com\/gF4u2hWsWA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Weather Service (@SAWeatherServic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAWeatherServic\/status\/1808441378872918357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Disaster Risk Management spokesperson, Sonica Lategan, says officials are busy with assessments following reports of flooding in several areas.<\/p>\n<p>She says flooding was also reported at a block of flats in Tableview, and another in Sea Point.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have also been received of two structures in Kalk Bay surrounded by mud.<\/p>\n<p>Lategan says teams will provide plastic sheeting and sandbags to the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>In Overcome Heights, there are sewers overflowing, affecting seven structures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are busy with assessments following reports of flooding in several areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":964188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[543],"class_list":["post-964187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}