{"id":73586,"date":"2017-10-12T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73586"},"modified":"2017-10-16T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:43:29","slug":"rumour-outside-appointment-municipal-manager-leads-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/12\/rumour-outside-appointment-municipal-manager-leads-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour of outside appointment for Municipal Manager leads to protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message asking for protesters, opposing the appointment of someone outside the Middelburg stall, to gather at the <a href=\"https:\/\/plak.co.za\/moreinfo\/42734\/eric-jiyane-hall-54600106\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Jiyane Hall <\/a>in Mhluzi, was circulated yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73588\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/Strike2-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/Strike2-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/Strike2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71042\/update-road-cleared-now-protest-set-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road cleared for now, protest set to continue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several burning tyres have been reported in Mhluzi as well as in Walter Sisulu and Wanderers Streets in the vicinity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevetshwetelm.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Tshwete Municipality<\/a> offices. Public Order Police are on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70938\/motorists-warned-several-protest-actions-identified\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motorists warned &#8211; several protest actions identified<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/a>\u00a0team will be monitoring the situation throughout the day and there will also be more about the reason for the protest in the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>, on sale this afternoon at 15:00.<\/p>\n<p>For regular news updates:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\/\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Add us on WhatsApp by saving the number 072 248 3855 on your phone and sending the words \u201cAdd me\u201d via a WhatsApp message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Middelburg are up in arms after rumours that an outside candidate will be appointed in the place of acting Municipal Manager Mandla Mnguni.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[8100,8098,8099,1976,2992,920,2035,8095,8097,8096],"class_list":["post-73586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-acting-municipal-manager","tag-burning-tyres","tag-mandla-mnguni","tag-mhluzi","tag-protest","tag-steve-tshwete-municipality","tag-strike","tag-what-is-going-on-in-middelburg","tag-why-are-they-protesting","tag-why-are-they-striking"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["acting municipal manager","burning tyres","mandla mnguni","Mhluzi","Protest","Steve Tshwete Municipality","strike","what is going on in Middelburg","why are they protesting?","why are they striking?"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586","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=73586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}