{"id":37007,"date":"2015-11-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/37007\/municipal-workers-go-on-rampage\/"},"modified":"2015-11-06T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:14:19","slug":"municipal-workers-go-on-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/06\/municipal-workers-go-on-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News &#8211; (Video): Municipal workers go on rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you dare take photos or write something in your newspaper you will get what\u2019s coming to you! We know where you live,\u201d yelled one of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal workers at the facility embarked on an illegal strike and held senior municipal workers hostage.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters burnt tyres and turned over dustbins.<\/p>\n<p>The police (POP) monitored the scene and no injuries were reported.<\/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\/vFmlGyOSJiU' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=33712\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Municipal workers strike<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/33717\/samwu-workers-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery \u2013 SAMWU workers strike!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observer journalists were threatened by municipal workers during a strike today (Friday) at the Steve Tshwete Municipality storage facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":37015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane and Zsaraeva Nel","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[2890,920,2035],"class_list":["post-37007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-municipal-strike","tag-steve-tshwete-municipality","tag-strike"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["municipal strike","Steve Tshwete Municipality","strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007","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=37007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}