{"id":68983,"date":"2017-06-29T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=68983"},"modified":"2017-07-04T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:48:38","slug":"video-minister-chased-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/29\/video-minister-chased-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Minister chased from meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zwane was supposed to be discussing the recently unveiled Mining Charter, which ups the percentage of black ownership to 30%.<\/p>\n<p>But people attending the community meeting would not let him speak, and held up placards calling him a \u201cGupta Minister\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68985\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68985\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/mining2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/mining2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/mining2-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Zwane was not given the chance to address the audience during a community meeting at the Banquet Hall last Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minister, who was meant to hear the views of affected communities following the release of the third iteration of the Mining Charter last week, was forced to leave the meeting before being heckled by sections of the audience.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minister chased from meeting, Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nve__-ueHIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Newly formed civil society organisation Practical Radical Economic Transformation (PRET) Secretary General Sandile Mathebula demanded to know why Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza was not present, accusing the Department of Mineral Resources and Zwane in particular of \u201cdisrespecting the people\u201d by not having their provincial leader present.<\/p>\n<p>A rival group expressed disappointment that Zwane was unable to address the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mining imbizo hosted by Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane at the Sydney Choma Banquet Hall in Walter Sisulu Street was cancelled and he had to be escorted away from an angry crowd &#8211; which at one point almost became violent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":68984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68983","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=68983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}