{"id":34888,"date":"2022-11-15T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34888"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:39:36","slug":"thieves-steal-entire-school-every-single-piece-of-the-building-from-bricks-to-plumbing-is-swiped-by-crooks-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34888","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal entire school: Every single piece of the building &#8211; from bricks to plumbing &#8211; is swiped by crooks in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Once the school closed, thieves stripped Uitzig Secondary School brick-by-brick over a six-month period, so only the concrete floor remains.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mail On-Line<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The once-proud Uitzig Secondary School in Cape Town used to boast a grand entrance and reception area and five classroom blocks and two toilet areas.<\/p>\n<p>But once the local education authority shut the gates for the last time and moved the 100 pupils to nearby schools the opportunist crooks moved in.<\/p>\n<p>Within six months every single brick, window and every roof tile along with the toilets, electrics and plumbing and even blackboards had been stripped.<\/p>\n<p>But then the same photo taken a couple of years later shows the red brick and tile school had &#8216;vanished&#8217; and only the concrete classroom floors remain\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11377125\/Thieves-steal-entire-secondary-school-brick-brick-Cape-Town-South-Africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the school closed, thieves stripped Uitzig Secondary School brick-by-brick over a six-month period, so only the concrete floor remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34889,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34888\/revisions\/34889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}