{"id":87464,"date":"2018-11-26T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=87464"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T09:57:03","slug":"update-n11-blocked-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/11\/26\/update-n11-blocked-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: N11 blocked by Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queues of vehicles lined up for kilometres as motorists travelling to and from Hendrina were forced to pull off.<\/p>\n

Contract workers have aired their dissatisfaction since they have not received a cent yet for more than six months.<\/p>\n

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Protesters have set alight some rubbish on the N11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fulltime employees at Optimum Colliery as well as Woestalleen Colliery were denied access to their work place.<\/p>\n

Also read: Warning: N11 closed by protesters #TrafficUpdate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trucks carrying coal were pulled over by protesters and their loads were spilled onto the road to block passageway.
\nSeveral of these vehicles were also stopped in the middle of the road to create barriers.<\/p>\n

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A coal truck’s trailer was tipped to spill coal onto the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The protest scene is currently peaceful as members of the Police Force are manning the situation.<\/p>\n

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The entrance to Optimum is still blocked as police try to clear the scene.<\/p>\n

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Monday morning traffic came to a stand still at the Pullenshope turn off on the N11 due to striking action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":87465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,12898,15047,12712,15045,13184,10795,15046,11841,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-87464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-motorists-forced-off-n11-by-protesters","tag-n11-pullenshope-blocked","tag-n11-traffic-update","tag-n11-woestalleen-closed","tag-optimum-mine","tag-protesters-block-n11","tag-roads-closed","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","motorists forced off N11 by protesters","N11 Pullenshope blocked","N11 traffic update","N11 Woestalleen closed","Optimum Mine","protesters block N11","roads closed","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87464","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=87464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}