{"id":26180,"date":"2015-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/26180\/march-leader-lives-in-fear\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:48:00","slug":"march-leader-lives-in-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/07\/march-leader-lives-in-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: March leader lives in fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extension 24 prevented the NDTA taxi\u2019s to pick up commuters by barricading the area with bricks and attacking NDTA taxi\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Mogwane he heard a knock on his door on Tuesday evening and when he opened six men, two in full police attire with a sniffer dog, stormed into his house and chased him around.<\/p>\n<p>He then ran into the backroom where his two was sons sleeping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/26203\/video-taxi-war-continues\/\">Video: Taxi war continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men then asked me to lay down on the floor and started assaulting me and my two children, yelling I should take out the gun. My wife came into the room after she heard the children crying and was also assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men eventually left the property and speed off in three police vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Community members came out in numbers to assist the Mogwane family, armed with the three police vehicles registration number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey first did not want me to open a case and told me to wait until the next day but we stood there until they opened the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am planning to sue the state and I want the attackers to be brought to justice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to w\/o Lize de Witt the case is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Extension 24 have since asked Mhluzi taxis to pick up commuters and are still waiting for council for feed back on the memorandum they have submitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute which has now become a taxi war was between the Nasareth District Taxi Association (NDTA) and Extension 24 residents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":26181,"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":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180","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=26180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}