{"id":69732,"date":"2017-07-24T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69732"},"modified":"2017-07-24T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:16:01","slug":"video-pedestrians-pushed-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/24\/video-pedestrians-pushed-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Pedestrians \u201cpushed\u201d into taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage shows a group of pedestrians angry and agitated, arguing with the driver and asking people to call the police.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the driver of the taxi, which belongs to a MD Mohlala of Roossenekal\/ Steelpoort, shoved and pushed the group of pedestrians into the taxi.<\/p>\n<p>They were forced inside but upon the arrival of\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0they were let go.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the taxi, Themba Mohlala, told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0that the argument was actually about money.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EGmiy83cgEI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We charge R130 per passenger to Burgersfort, but they refused and started to swear at the driver. That was the reason for the argument and why they were making a scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi driver has been accused of bullying pedestrians following an altercation with members of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69732","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\/69732","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=69732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}