{"id":964666,"date":"2024-07-07T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964666"},"modified":"2024-07-07T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:50:36","slug":"displaced-flood-victims-in-nmb-protest-over-removal-from-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/displaced-flood-victims-in-nmb-protest-over-removal-from-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaced flood victims in NMB protest over removal from shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Displaced flood victims from the <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/torrential-rain-displaces-over-a-thousand-in-nelson-mandela-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nelson Mandela Bay<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Metro on Sunday protested against plans by the government to remove them from the temporary shelters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The group had been there since the floods hit on June 1 and were scheduled to leave the area on July 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The disgruntled residents said they were promised temporary structures <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">which are<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> yet to be completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This comes as a predicted winter storm <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is expected to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> reach the Metro by Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the displaced flood victims, Sherwin Vosloo says they have been given empty promises. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;What we are facing at this point is outrageous. We&#8217;re dealing with empty promises from our president and officials. They said we must move from our place. They took us and put us into shelters but now we need to be removed from the shelters,&#8221; says Vosloo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The displaced residents have since vowed to stay put. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Meanwhile, the National Department of Human Settlements is yet to reply to questions sent by the SABC on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Eastern Cape Floods | NMB Municipality urged to speed up disaster recovery efforts<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7DWJOKqkeMA?si=95TAneeC4iaVTP5S\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims have been placed in shelters since the floods hit on June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[815,818],"class_list":["post-964666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-floods","tag-the-nelson-mandela-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964666","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}