{"id":964672,"date":"2024-07-07T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964672"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:21:16","slug":"kariega-flood-victims-anxious-ahead-of-new-school-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/kariega-flood-victims-anxious-ahead-of-new-school-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Kariega flood victims anxious ahead of new school term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/victims-of-kariega-floods-plead-for-quicker-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Flood victims from Lapland in Kariega<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in the Eastern Cape have raised concern about the return of their children to school on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The affected families have been placed in temporary shelters since the flood struck on June 1, with many having lost all their possessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pauline Rossouw, a parent, says displaced school-going children have been recorded but have yet to receive school supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We have not received anything; stationary, school clothes, nothing for our children. I don&#8217;t know how our kids are <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">going back<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to school on Tuesday,&#8221; the parent says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Over the last few weeks, many flood victims have lived off donations while the government vowed to sort out permanent shelter <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">for them<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Cold Front | NMB residents on edge after storm alert<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sSK7sgf6XUI?si=DB-k1WvioPwgN_Wh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Newly elected Education MEC Fundile Gade is also yet to outline plans that the government will embark on to assist schools that were affected by the floods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents say while schools open on Tuesday, learners affected by floods are yet to receive supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[761],"class_list":["post-964672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964672","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=964672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}