{"id":72407,"date":"2017-09-19T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72407"},"modified":"2017-09-26T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:01:31","slug":"video-protesters-shut-banks-tambo-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/19\/video-protesters-shut-banks-tambo-street\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Protesters shut down banks in OR Tambo street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 people staged a protest outside ABSA Bank in OR Tambo Street on Tuesday\u00a0morning.<\/p>\n<p>They held up placards denouncing job losses at Optimum Colliery.<\/p>\n<p>According to one of the protesters, about 7 500 jobs are being cut at Optimum, following it&#8217;s sale last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s also a protest in Hendrina. Where must we go without jobs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police closed a portion of the street and it was unclear when the road would be opened again.<\/p>\n<p>All banks in the street, including ABSA and Nedbank, as well as several shops shut doors and watched the protest from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters were largely peaceful but Police were keeping a watchful eye.<\/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\/KXSKHqwO0wQ' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 7 500 jobs will be lost at Optimum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":72408,"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":[2539,7591,7589,7590,7592,7588,7593],"class_list":["post-72407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-absa","tag-guptas","tag-market-street","tag-nedbank","tag-optimum","tag-or-tambo-street","tag-tegeta"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Absa","Guptas","market street","Nedbank","optimum","OR TAMBO street","tegeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}