{"id":64761,"date":"2017-03-21T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=64761"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:15:16","slug":"protesters-block-off-roads-around-duvha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/21\/protesters-block-off-roads-around-duvha\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters block off roads around Duvha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protestors are believed to be mostly NUM Members who last week handed a memorandum of their grievances following Eskom&#8217;s announcement to close at least five power stations in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Trucks blocked roads on Tuesday morning with even a Wendy house pushed into the middle of the road.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64763\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64763\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/03\/duva2-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/03\/duva2-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/03\/duva2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks also blocked the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No vehicles were allowed to pass through and Police were responding to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrations around Duvha Power Station on Tuesday morning resulted in the closure of several roads around the Power Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":64762,"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":[],"class_list":["post-64761","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\/64761","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=64761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}