{"id":45505,"date":"2022-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=ddb137ec2459c75d802bdc31f40121c3"},"modified":"2022-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/","title":{"rendered":"Government probes source of stench in Gauteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is investigating the source of the stench over parts of Gauteng in the past two days.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the department noted concerns about the strong smell.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2026 Department is working with environmental and air quality officials in Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West to determine the cause of the stench, and whether prevailing wind and weather conditions have contributed to the smell travelling over a long distance from another province, as was the case when a similar incident was reported in 2021,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is investigating the source of the stench over parts of Gauteng in the past two days.On Thursday, the department noted concerns about the strong smell.\u201cThe \u2026 Department is working with environme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Government probes source of stench in Gauteng - South Africa Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government probes source of stench in Gauteng - South Africa Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is investigating the source of the stench over parts of Gauteng in the past two days.On Thursday, the department noted concerns about the strong smell.\u201cThe \u2026 Department is working with environme...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"shadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ed2a8470fb6dce16b525ad4dffe66cd2\"},\"headline\":\"Government probes source of stench in Gauteng\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/government-probes-source-of-stench-in-gauteng\/\"},\"wordCount\":105,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Buying &amp; 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