{"id":35861,"date":"2015-10-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/35861\/clean-audit-empty-stomachs\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:42:41","slug":"clean-audit-empty-stomachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/15\/clean-audit-empty-stomachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;Clean audit, empty stomachs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steve Tshwete Local Municipality Traffic Department have embarked on a go slow on Thursday morning stating that taxi drivers and motorists &#8220;should do as they please on the roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department has been stagnant for the last 30 years. They are still using the old system. We want changes like promotions, a better working environment and better salaries for all,&#8221; said Simphiwe Nkosi, shop steward of SAMWU (South African Municipal Workers&#8217; Union).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no traffic services until our demands are met even if it lasts the whole year,&#8221; added Mr Nkosi.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning traffic personnel were waiting for the Municipal Manager, Mr Mandla Mnguni to hand over a memorandum of their grievances.<\/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\/GGjLJBPk7DM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Observer journalists entered the unorderly office, they were met with shouts of &#8220;we want more money, we are tired of loan sharks&#8221; by displeased traffic personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":35862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane and Annie van Zyl","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-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\/35861","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=35861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}