{"id":59217,"date":"2016-11-03T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=59217"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T07:03:09","slug":"video-district-municipality-plagued-by-tyre-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/03\/video-district-municipality-plagued-by-tyre-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: District municipality plagued by tyre thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men targeted the bakkie of an independent auditor, from the provincial Auditor General\u2019s office, for the second time in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Security officers however kept a close watch on the trio, and pounced when they observed one of the men sliding underneath the auditor\u2019s bakkie.<\/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\/gqn1Ts6390I' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Staff quickly rallied around the three suspects and prevented them from leaving the premises.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, the three men were taken into custody and charged with attempted theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Read the full article in today\u2019s edition of the <i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>, dated Friday, 3 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men were apprehended by security and staff of the Nkangala District Municipality for a wave of tyre thefts in the municipal parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":59219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59217","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\/59217","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=59217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}