{"id":70515,"date":"2017-08-08T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70515"},"modified":"2017-08-08T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:56:20","slug":"video-middelburg-eff-marches-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/08\/video-middelburg-eff-marches-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Middelburg EFF marches against Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic Officers and Police escorted the crowd, who held placards in their hands which stated &#8216;Fire Zuma&#8217;, through Walter Sisulu Street in the Middelburg CBD.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd then gathered and sang songs as they awaited the Speaker of Council, Cllr Joe Mabena.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70449\/leegleers-by-skool-verjaag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Leegl\u00eaers by skool verjaag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70455\/valskermklub-in-finansiele-moeilikheid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valskermklub in finansi\u00eble moeilikheid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70498\/honde-dennesig-vergiftig\/\" target=\"_blank\">Honde in Dennesig vergiftig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy with the decision for a secret ballot and we hope Zuma will be fired,\u201d EFF Councillor Enos Sebesho said.<\/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\/jyyDi_AiKfc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Police were monitoring the situation but the protesters did not threaten violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 members of the EFF staged a march from Mhluzi to the grounds of the Steve Tshwete Municipality on Tuesday morning, in a show of support for the No Confidence vote in President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70516,"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":[7331,1146,1132,1049,1284,1992,3763,7334,7333,7332,1088],"class_list":["post-70515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-noconfidence","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-danger","tag-eff","tag-gevaar","tag-march","tag-optog","tag-politic","tag-politiek","tag-warning","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["#NoConfidence","anc","DA","danger","EFF","gevaar","march","Optog","politic","politiek","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70515","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=70515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}