{"id":19793,"date":"2013-05-15T13:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/port-elizabeth-floods-1968\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:44:58","slug":"port-elizabeth-floods-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/port-elizabeth-floods-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Elizabeth Floods 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rare video footage of the biggest natural disaster to hit a South African city \u2013 uploaded by Jerry Schuitema.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the footage I remember (or think I do!) standing at Fort Fredrick and looking down as the waters raged through the Baakens Valley whilst my parents told me about the previous flood when a horse ended up on top of the bus station below. I recall accompanying my late Father to his <a title=\"Straton and Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/E_,045_From_Ears_to_Eyes\/Electrical_Contractors\/straton_electrical_239.html\" target=\"_blank\">business premises<\/a> in Neave Township and seeing dead dogs floating in Kempston Road and Cadle Street and dead cows in the river. I recall my brother upending buckets of water on himself as he crawled through our home.<\/p>\n<p>Where were you during the floods of 1968?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Schuitema is an award winning journalist who spent more than 3 decades in the front line of business reporting and founded the transformation consultancy \u2013 Schuitema Associates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare video footage of the biggest natural disaster to hit a South African city \u2013 uploaded by Jerry Schuitema. Looking at the footage I remember (or think I do!) standing at Fort Fredrick and looking down as the waters raged through the Baakens Valley whilst my parents told me about the previous flood when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-19793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}