{"id":84685,"date":"2018-09-11T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84685"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:16:19","slug":"update-highveld-emporium-set-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/09\/11\/update-highveld-emporium-set-alight\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Highveld Emporium set alight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protests broke out after a a racial incident between a white and black man.
\nThe white man was admitted to hospital following a fight.<\/p>\n

Also read: BREAKING NEWS: One building torched in protests, businesses appealing for backup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When security officers went to arrest his assailants on Monday the community went on a rampage which spilled into town on Tuesday.
\nThe burning building is situated in Potgieter Street. It belongs to an Indian business owner.<\/p>\n

Police and fire fighters have been dispatched to the scene while protests are continuing.<\/p>\n

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Highveld Emporium in Machadodorp is still in flames as residents struggle to contain the fire after protesters set the building alight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,2962,12898,13460,13468,13469,10333],"class_list":["post-84685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-machadodorp","tag-middelburg-news","tag-protests-lead-to-arson-in-machadodorp","tag-protsests-lead-to-arson-after-a-racial-altercation-in-machadodorp","tag-residents-plead-for-help-during-protests","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","machadodorp","middelburg news","Protests lead to arson in Machadodorp","protsests lead to arson after a racial altercation in machadodorp","residents plead for help during protests","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84685","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}