{"id":27760,"date":"2015-04-16T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=27760"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:10:35","slug":"video-taxi-war-turns-bloody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/16\/video-taxi-war-turns-bloody\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Taxi war turns bloody"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27774\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/nazi3-LL-ZN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27774\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/nazi3-LL-ZN-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"A number of women came together shortly after three people were shot in the ongoing taxi war raging between the Nasaret Taxi Association and the Mhluzi District Taxi Association, to pray for an end to the violence. Feral cries to God for intervention could be heard blocks away after multiple shots rang out around 09:00. The Nasaret community say they are not only under fire of rival taxi lords, their drivers and their passangers, but also the police. Photo: Gerhard Rheeder\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/nazi3-LL-ZN-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/nazi3-LL-ZN-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/nazi3-LL-ZN.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A number of women came together shortly after three people were shot in the ongoing taxi war raging between the Nasaret Taxi Association and the Mhluzi District Taxi Association, to pray for an end to the violence. Feral cries to God for intervention could be heard blocks away after multiple shots rang out around 09:00. The Nasaret community say they are not only under fire of rival taxi lords, their drivers and their passangers, but also the police. Photo: Gerhard Rheeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read previous articles here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/26203\/video-taxi-war-continues\/\">Video: Taxi war continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/25743\/warning-not-for-sensetive-ears-video-ndta-blocks-n11\/\">(Warning not for sensitive ears) &#8211; Video: NDTA blocks N11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updates here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/27889\/taxi-violence-updates\/\">Update: Taxi Violence updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nasaret vs Ext 24 strike, Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcGB-gy16SA?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powder keg exploded in Nasaret on Thursday with the shooting of three innocent civilians, including an 11-year old boy, in the ongoing taxi war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Zsaraeva Nel, Yolandi van den Berg and Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}