{"id":965204,"date":"2024-07-11T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965204"},"modified":"2024-07-11T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T03:19:12","slug":"kzn-cogta-mec-to-visit-communities-affected-by-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/kzn-cogta-mec-to-visit-communities-affected-by-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"KZN CoGTA MEC to visit communities affected by wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu-Natal Co-operative Governance MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi is today expected to visit communities that have been affected by the recent wildfires in the Nkandla and Umlalazi local municipalities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2XLyp5xnOM?si=fpv1YRlu3j9pm9wi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-seven-year-old Muntukabongwa Gazu died when fire gutted his house in Ezinyosini.<\/p>\n<p>Buthelezi says municipalities should be able to access funds in such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that government needs to reconsider the budget that is given to municipalities because they are unable to aid such disasters. It has become a norm that many areas in the province experience natural disasters where municipalities are limited with resources due to budgets. I believe as the MEC for CoGTA I will be able to look into this. I urge communities to remain on alert and refrain from starting fires and leaving them unattended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 45 homesteads have also been destroyed, livestock killed and other infrastructure damage.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KZN CoGTA&#8217;s\u00a0 Nonala Ndlovu shares more:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wb3NPEW5SDo?si=kMYZNBMaqhjaGEKA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 45 homesteads have been destroyed, livestock killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-965204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-kzn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965204","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=965204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}