{"id":84823,"date":"2018-09-14T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84823"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:11:44","slug":"trafficupdate-avoid-n4-near-machadodorp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/09\/14\/trafficupdate-avoid-n4-near-machadodorp\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficUpdate: Avoid N4 near Machadodorp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures circulating on WhatsApp, have warned motorists to steer clear of Machadodorp as protests erupted once again.<\/p>\n

The town was plunged into chaos earlier this week when a video of two men attempting to forcefully arrest another man, surfaced.<\/p>\n

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Motorists are warned to avoid the N4 past Machadodorp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A local businessman lost his shop after it was looted and set alight.<\/p>\n

The two men, Bruce Botha and Wayne Swart, was arrested and charged with assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm. They were released on R500 earlier this morning.<\/p>\n

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Tensions run high after the two men accused of assaulting another man, were released on bail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":84828,"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":[7,2],"tags":[1705,10010,2962,21966,901,2992,3371,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-84823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bail","tag-local-news","tag-machadodorp","tag-middelburg","tag-n4","tag-protest","tag-racism","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bail","local news","machadodorp","middelburg","n4","Protest","racism","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84823","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=84823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}