{"id":43238,"date":"2026-01-20T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-sinkhole-is-developing-in-the-germiston-area-on-johann-rissik-street\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:02:15","slug":"a-sinkhole-is-developing-in-the-germiston-area-on-johann-rissik-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-sinkhole-is-developing-in-the-germiston-area-on-johann-rissik-street\/","title":{"rendered":"A sinkhole is developing in the Germiston area on Johann Rissik street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 20 January 2026, a sinkhole is developing in the Germiston area on Johann Rissik street, between Junction road and Main Reef road, parallel to the Rasta informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>As a safety measure, the two (2) lanes traveling in the same direction have been temporarily converted into a two-way traffic flow.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to exercise caution, reduce speed and follow temporary traffic arrangements when using this route.<\/p>\n<p>The Roads Department has been notified and will attend to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>#EMPD<br \/>\n#southernregion<br \/>\n#TrafficUpdate&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76177&#038;page=a-sinkhole-is-developing-in-the-germiston-area-on-johann-rissik-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 20 January 2026, a sinkhole is developing in the Germiston area on Johann Rissik street, between Junction road and Main Reef road, parallel to the Rasta informal settlement. As a safety measure, the two (2) lanes traveling in the same direction have been temporarily converted into a two-way traffic flow. Motorists are urged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/617582104_907086118939321_6201514591260379669_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/617582104_907086118939321_6201514591260379669_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}