{"id":60603,"date":"2016-11-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/60603\/no-protests-in-mhluzi-as-expected\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T10:24:25","slug":"no-protests-in-mhluzi-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/29\/no-protests-in-mhluzi-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"No protests in Mhluzi as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drive into the township just after 06:00 was met by scenes of calm and normality and no one was prevented from leaving the township to go to work &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/60154\/protests-over-land-errupt-in-mhluzi\/\" target=\"_blank\">unlike last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today (Tuesday) a Middelburg High Court ruling will be announced. It is expected to give the municipality the go-ahead to forcibly remove any structures if required.<\/p>\n<p>Police remain on high alert following threats from the EFF and land claimants that the situation could turn violent.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of going to press, there were no reports of crowds gathering or any road closures.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/60425\/pakistani-shops-close-due-to-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistani shops close due to protests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/60234\/update-protesters-bring-cbd-to-a-standstill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters bring CBD to a standstill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/60154\/protests-over-land-errupt-in-mhluzi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protests over land erupt in Mhluzi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For\u00a0daily news updates:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 33658, like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For videos check\u00a0out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mhluzi was quiet this morning with no sign of riots or protests by land claimants in Extension 6 ahead of a court ruling expected to declare the land grab illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60606,"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":[7,2],"tags":[1284,5990,5991,5989,5987,5988,2035],"class_list":["post-60603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-eff","tag-extension-6","tag-high-court","tag-land-grab-middelburg","tag-mhluzi-protests","tag-riots","tag-strike"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["EFF","extension 6","High Court","land grab middelburg","Mhluzi protests","riots","strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60603","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=60603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}