{"id":101496,"date":"2019-09-06T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=101496"},"modified":"2019-09-06T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:58:28","slug":"trafficupdatetaxi-protests-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/06\/trafficupdatetaxi-protests-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficUpdate: Police intervene after escalation in taxi protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivals in the taxi industry were fighting amongst each other over taxi routes, which led to the closure of the busy intersection near Middelburg Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions arose during the situation and a civilian was injured during a scuffle by some of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>According to Captain Khanyisile Zwane, the police dispersed the crowd and ten taxis are currently being towed away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The taxi dispute that took place at the intersection between Nelson Mandela Drive and Sondagsrivier Street escalated to violence and led to police intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":101495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,12898,15568,20577,20579,20578,2023,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-101496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic-update","tag-nelson-mandela-drive-and-sondagsrivier-closed","tag-taxi-dispute","tag-taxi-dispute-leads-to-road-closure","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic update","nelson mandela drive and sondagsrivier closed","taxi dispute","taxi dispute leads to road closure","traffic","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}