{"id":965628,"date":"2024-07-14T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965628"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T05:17:26","slug":"additional-funding-cleared-for-western-cape-following-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/additional-funding-cleared-for-western-cape-following-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional funding cleared for Western Cape following heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape Government says the path has been cleared for additional funding from national government after the province was declared a disaster area. The province says it has received notification from the National Disaster Risk Management Centre for a provincial disaster classification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/cape-town-remains-on-high-alert-following-heavy-rains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heavy rains in the Western Cape<\/a> have caused damage to infrastructure including roads and railway lines.<\/p>\n<p>Buildings have also suffered damage.<\/p>\n<p>Western Cape Local Government Minister, Anton Bredell, says the classification will help the provincial administration to coordinate support from different spheres of government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>W Cape Floods | Premier Alan Winde updates on response efforts to the inclement weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GrPz2q9bJuI?si=W149lTxSazL4-yWC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in the Western Cape have caused damage to infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965628","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=965628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}