{"id":113649,"date":"2020-03-25T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=113649"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:03:40","slug":"violent-protest-action-flares-n11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/25\/violent-protest-action-flares-n11\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent protest action flares up on N11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doornkop residents have been barricading the N11 since Tuesday morning and riots have continued throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>It could be confirmed that several motorists were violently attacked throughout the night, after a truck was burned down, one vehicle was shot at and another attacked with petrol bombs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113650\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113650\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/N11-aanvalle-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/N11-aanvalle-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/N11-aanvalle-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the vehicle that came under fire on Tuesday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Middelburg CPF chairperson, Rahana Pilodia, police are currently at the scene and the road is open.<\/p>\n<p>While the police continues to monitor the situation, motorists are urged to avoid the route as far as possible as flare ups in violence continue to break out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest action over service delivery continues to flare up at the Doornkop settlement along the N11 (Loskop).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":113590,"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":[23990,23991,10010,12898,15567,23993,15946,10333,23992],"class_list":["post-113649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-doornkop-protests","tag-doornkop-riots","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-motorists-attacked-during-violent-doornkop-protests","tag-traffic-alert","tag-trusted-news","tag-violent-protest-action-flares-up-on-n11"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["doornkop protests","doornkop riots","local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","motorists attacked during violent doornkop protests","traffic alert","trusted news","violent protest action flares up on N11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113649","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=113649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}