{"id":27889,"date":"2015-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/27889\/taxi-violence-updates\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T06:41:45","slug":"taxi-violence-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/17\/taxi-violence-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Taxi Violence updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest developments at 09:30 this morning:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Police confirmed that 10 people were arrested this morning after their minibus, carrying police officers, were attacked and damaged by protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Phola Coaches bus carrying workers to the Middelburg Mine was attacked in Rockdale, a witness said that one person was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Police\u2019s Public Order unit are currently on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Residents in Nasaret and Extension 24 were forced to stay in doors with police patrolling the streets and firing rubber bullets to disperse troublemakers.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous articles here:<\/p>\n<article id=\"post\" class=\"post-27760 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news-general category-news-municipal content-print\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\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) \u2013 Video: NDTA blocks N11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/27760\/video-taxi-war-turns-bloody\/\">Video: Taxi war turns bloody<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/taxiviolence\">#taxiviolence Tweets<\/a> !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?&#8217;http&#8217;:&#8217;https&#8217;;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+&#8221;:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&#8221;;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,&#8221;script&#8221;,&#8221;twitter-wjs&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Middelburg\">#Middelburg Tweets<\/a> !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?&#8217;http&#8217;:&#8217;https&#8217;;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+&#8221;:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&#8221;;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,&#8221;script&#8221;,&#8221;twitter-wjs&#8221;); <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middelburg Observer will bring you regular updates on the status of the clash between Nasaret and Extension 24 next to the N11 (Hendrina Road) where a taxi war turned violent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-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\/27889","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=27889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/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=27889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}