{"id":561,"date":"2015-12-21T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/?p=561"},"modified":"2016-01-20T07:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T05:02:57","slug":"witte-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/witte-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Witte Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">An article in The Sunday Times by Bobby Jordan from the 6th of December 2015 about farmers upstream of Bainskloof Village diverting most of the Witte River&#8217;s water to their own lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Click the following link<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-controvery.docx\">Witte controvery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-before-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Witte before\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-before-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-before-1024x713.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photograph taken in the 1960s of the Witte River above the weir before farmers bulldozed the run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-after-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Witte after\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-after-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Witte-after-1024x776.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This black and white photograph was taken by Ed Herbst in the early &#8217;80s after the farmers had, without consulting anyone, simply bulldozed a section of the river above the weir open. It shows Kas Hamman, then deputy director of Cape Nature Conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The Sunday Times by Bobby Jordan from the 6th of December 2015 about farmers upstream of Bainskloof Village diverting most of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}