{"id":65344,"date":"2017-04-03T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=65344"},"modified":"2017-04-04T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T06:25:45","slug":"calls-protest-march-zuma-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/03\/calls-protest-march-zuma-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for protest march against Zuma and corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Zuma faces mounting pressure to resign following his decision to fire Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>So far several marches have been confirmed &#8211; most of them in cities around South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>A march in Cape Town is scheduled to take place on Friday 7 April in front of Iziko Museum at 12:00 (Company&#8217;s Garden).<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance has also called on all South Africans to join in a march at Luthuli House on Friday and sign a #NoConfidence petition against President Zuma Zwelinzima Vavi, under his new union, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), will also be marching to Treasury on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He stated on twitter: <i>#SAFTU calls on workers and all South Africans to assembly at Church Square at 10:00 #OccupyTreasury its a peaceful demonstration <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lobby group Save SA called on South Africans to bring flags, and for family and friends and occupy central Pretoria on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There is so far no confirmation of any protest action to be held in or around Middelburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest marches have being organised for all South Africans to stand together against President Jacob Zuma and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":65345,"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-65344","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\/65344","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=65344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}