{"id":914553,"date":"2022-01-08T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/cape-fire-teams-fight-blaze-on-signal-hill\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:11:30","slug":"cape-fire-teams-fight-blaze-on-signal-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/cape-fire-teams-fight-blaze-on-signal-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape fire teams fight blaze on Signal Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8f426047-9d40-53fd-b8b5-42c4635fc090&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x127&#038;resize=680x383.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>FIRE teams are fighting a blaze on Signal Hill in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, at least four fire crews were working to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cape Town: Fire pic.twitter.com\/oqvcRAUWmE<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) January 8, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest blaze came just hours after a fire was doused at the Department of Justice\u2019s regional offices in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p> reported that officials were investigating the circumstances of the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg, Cape Town Central police opened an arson docket for investigation after a fire was reported in Queen Victoria Street in Cape Town. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one was arrested,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Paul Makaula, the man accused of breaking the windows at the Constitutional Court, appeared in the Hillbrow Magistrate\u2019s Court yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He is facing a charge of malicious damage to property and was remanded in custody until March 25 after abandoning his bail application. <\/p>\n<p>NPA spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane said the investigation process was at an early stage and more charges were likely to be added in terms of the National Key Points Act. <\/p>\n<p>Investigations conducted by Lieutenant-Colonel Ingrid Simons revealed that Makaula is a parolee after he had been sentenced to 15 years in 2010 for murder. This information would be forwarded to the Department of Correctional Services for further processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRE teams are fighting a blaze on Signal Hill in Cape Town. According to reports, at least four fire crews were working to contain the blaze. MORE ON THIS Cape Town: Fire pic.twitter.com\/oqvcRAUWmE \u2014 Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) January 8, 2022 The latest blaze came just hours after a fire was doused at the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}