{"id":25547,"date":"2015-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/25547\/n11-barricaded\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:13:58","slug":"n11-barricaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2015\/02\/24\/n11-barricaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: N11 barricaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protesters barricaded the N11 to prevent taxi\u2019s from going into the area to pick up commuters. One car was damage.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were prevented from going to work and school children were also stopped from going to school.<\/p>\n<p>There was a high police presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the riot is to get the Steve Tshwete Municipality to intervene as the Nasaret District Taxi Association (NDTA) only has Nasaret taxi owners and none from Rockdale, Extension 24 or Hlalamnandi.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iUxEL8Y8j0g' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>We have raised other concerns with the municipality such as a need for a mobile clinic in the area, \u201d said Patrick Mogwane, one of the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are tired of the poor service operation within the NDTA, we have been in talks with the association for the past three years but it has yielded no results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protesters handed over a memorandum to Mr Philele Nkosi of the Municipality and gave them a period of seven days to respond to it.<\/p>\n<p>Some protesters have since departed but no taxi movement is visible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turned over dustbins, bricks on the tarmac and hundreds of protesters singing and chanting struggle songs was the site from 5:00 this morning on the N11 as Extension 24 residents went on a rampage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":25550,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"category_labels":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25547","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=25547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}