{"id":60154,"date":"2016-11-22T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=60154"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T12:08:21","slug":"protests-over-land-errupt-in-mhluzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/22\/protests-over-land-errupt-in-mhluzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests over land erupt in Mhluzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was reported that at least 200 protesters, furious with the municipality for preventing a land grab close to Avalon through court action, vented their anger and frustration by locking down Mhluzi and sealed off all entrances.<\/p>\n

They also prevented people from leaving the area and hundreds of residents were unable to go to work this morning.<\/p>\n

The municipality obtained an interim court order earlier this month to forcibly prevent a land grab in Extension 6 – a move that hasn’t gone down well with the residents. A final court decision is expected on 29 November.<\/p>\n

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Protesters burnt tyres and blocked roads.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By 08:00 on Tuesday morning most of the roads had been cleared and the situation in Mhluzi began to normalize.<\/p>\n

Mhluzi SAPS spokesperson Nelisiwe Masemola said that groups were still gathered at various points and that police were monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of any injuries sustained as a result of the protest action and no arrests.<\/p>\n

The protesters are expected to march to the municipality later this morning.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of protesters in Mhluzi barricaded entrances to the township early on Tuesday morning, stoned cars and intimidated residents as a land claim issue in Extension 6 boils over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":60155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1590,2145,1049,1438,1992,4864,5791,5893,1976,5894,2992,2035,1931,1088],"class_list":["post-60154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-anger","tag-angry","tag-danger","tag-fire","tag-gevaar","tag-grab","tag-land","tag-land-grabs","tag-mhluzi","tag-middelburg-mhluzi-danger","tag-protest","tag-strike","tag-tyres","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["anger","Angry","danger","fire","gevaar","grab","Land","land grabs","Mhluzi","Middelburg Mhluzi danger","Protest","strike","tyres","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60154","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=60154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}