{"id":14100,"date":"2014-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/14100\/on-their-way-to-malawi\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:08:31","slug":"on-their-way-to-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/10\/on-their-way-to-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: On their way to Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are travelling from Pietermaritzburg to Malawi,&#8221; said the one driver, Mr Mohammed Otias.The two trucks were parked next to the road.<\/p>\n<p>The second driver, Mr Benandi Benandi, went to buy spares to fix the truck so that they can continue with their journey.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Overloaded trucks - From Middelburg to Malawi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlr_zJncYSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trucks were extremely <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/7530\/overloaded-truck-malawi\/\">overloaded<\/a> with beds, furniture, tyres, clothes, 20 litre bottles of water and petrol and apparently people too, as the truck driver was reluctant to open the cover.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14102\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/613312624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14102\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/613312624-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"The second overloaded truck. PHOTO: Zsaraeva Nel.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/613312624-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/613312624-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/613312624.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second overloaded truck. PHOTO: Zsaraeva Nel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Otias claims to only have three people travelling with him and another three on the other truck.<\/p>\n<p>Inside one truck was a very sick man with his pregnant wife and child on her back.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if these loads were not dangerous he laughed and said it is safe and he has been doing it for years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14103\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/596891939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14103\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/596891939-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"The tyres and 20 liter of petrol. PHOTO: Zsaraeva Nel.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/596891939-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/596891939-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/596891939.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tyres and 20 liter of petrol. PHOTO: Zsaraeva Nel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two mass overloaded trucks where spotted on the Groblersdal road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":14101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1903,1046,1663],"class_list":["post-14100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-malawi","tag-overloaded-trucks","tag-traffic-department"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Malawi","Overloaded Trucks","traffic department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}