{"id":964923,"date":"2024-07-09T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964923"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T09:27:09","slug":"eastern-cape-agriculture-assess-veld-fire-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/eastern-cape-agriculture-assess-veld-fire-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cape Agriculture assess veld fire damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture has dispatched teams to assess the damage brought by veld fires that scorched large parts of land in the eastern half of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Sheep farmers in the Qumbu area suffered huge losses with at least 180 sheep killed in a fire that swept through the area.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers in the area are calling for help, they especially need feed for their animals as all the grazing is lost.<\/p>\n<p>The fires were driven by strong winds that accompanied the cold front moving across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A fire also razed more than 10 households at Marhombe Village near Nqanqarhu, leaving two people injured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veld fire rips through Tlokoeng and Nqanqarhu in Eastern Cape:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6aGSPXG1Qrc?si=QeB-i20NfSRo6tp6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 180 sheep killed in a fire that swept through the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":964924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[943,559,944,945,946,947,948],"class_list":["post-964923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-180-sheep","tag-eastern-cape","tag-feed","tag-fire-damage","tag-grazing","tag-houses-burnt","tag-qumbhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964923","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}