{"id":28051,"date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/28051\/y-227\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T09:21:53","slug":"y-227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/21\/y-227\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Taxi war continues (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of the deceased still needs to be identified. He was allegedly shot in his stomach by a police official during another violent protest.<\/p>\n<p>The situation reached boiling point by the awarding of transport licenses to the Mhluzi Taxi Association, while the Nasaret Taxi Association was ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Nasaret operators refused to hand over the income they generate from within their own community.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday three houses were burned down, tires were set alight and the school were closed for the children\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have been arrested for public violence after a house was damaged and a bus was set alight.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting was scheduled between police, both rival taxi associations and the mayor Mr Mike Masina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/27760\/video-taxi-war-turns-bloody\/\">Video: Taxi war turns bloody<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When only Nasaret pitched up, they reacted with anger and started pelting passing cars with stones and empty beer bottles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/25743\/warning-not-for-sensetive-ears-video-ndta-blocks-n11\/\">(Warning not for sensitive ears) Video: NDTA blocks N11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/27889\/taxi-violence-updates\/\">Taxi violence updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was shot and killed in Extention 24 on Friday evening where a strike over taxi permits has escalated into a territorial war between the Nasaret Taxi Association and the Mhluzi District Taxi Association. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":28071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-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\/28051","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=28051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}