{"id":75295,"date":"2017-11-14T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=75295"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:48:01","slug":"bronkhorstpruit-shut-protest-outside-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/14\/bronkhorstpruit-shut-protest-outside-court\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO&#8217;s &amp; PHOTOS: Bronkhorstpruit \u2018shut down\u2019 after protest outside court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middelburg Observer&#8217;s sister paper, Streeknuus Bronkhorstpruit, reported on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Streeknuus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> that several businesses suffered damage by protesters. (Photos and videos by Streeknuus, BHS Veiligheid and Golf Echo Response.)<\/p>\n<p>Employees of the paper itself, had to lock the office doors and hide when the protest turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Several residents from Middelburg, who work in Bronkhorstspruit, said that they closed up shop and returned home for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Police used stun grenades to disperse the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/www.geresponse.co.za\/videos\/1666847166713022\/<\/p>\n<p>The protest follow the court appearance of two men,\u00a0Johannes Potgieter en Hendrik Dumas, accused of kidnapping, assaulting and pointing a firearm at a 10 year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/www.geresponse.co.za\/videos\/1666953666702372\/<\/p>\n<p>The girl claimed that she, her younger brother and two friends went jogging when their dogs ran off. Whilst searching for their dogs, they heard gunshots.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75300\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/Streeknuus5-480x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/Streeknuus5-480x400.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/Streeknuus5-168x140.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The girl was captured, tied to a tree and assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>The accused claim that the children were on the farm illegally and trying to hunt springbok without permission.<\/p>\n<p>In a most recent update, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Streeknuus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Streeknuus posted on Facebook<\/a> that the crowd has been dispersed and things are expected to calm down. People were advised to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several business properties were damaged and the majority of the town is closed for business following a protest outside of court in Bronkhorstspruit where two men appeared for the assault and kidnapping of a 10 year-old girl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":75301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Middelburg Observer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[9106,5812,1839,9104,9105,21966,2992,9107],"class_list":["post-75295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-10-year-old-girl-kidnapped","tag-breaking-news","tag-bronkhorstspruit","tag-business-closed","tag-court-appearance","tag-middelburg","tag-protest","tag-situation-in-bronkhorstspruit"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["10 year old girl kidnapped","Breaking News","Bronkhorstspruit","business closed","court appearance","middelburg","Protest","situation in bronkhorstspruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75295","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=75295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}