{"id":91083,"date":"2019-03-12T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=91083"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:25:33","slug":"trafficalert-protesters-gathering-soma-phepha-stoffberg-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/03\/12\/trafficalert-protesters-gathering-soma-phepha-stoffberg-road\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficAlert – Protesters gathering at Somaphepha, Stoffberg Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

People residing in the village are unable to enter or leave the location at this stage.<\/p>\n

The protesters have banded together across the street from the entrance to a new mine in the area. The demonstrators are unhappy about the new mine not providing work opportunities to local residents.<\/p>\n

According to reports from locals in the area, the Stoffberg Road is open for use, however, it is suspected that the protesters may block the road at a later stage.<\/p>\n

Motorists are urged to proceed with caution.<\/p>\n

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Local farmers from the Stoffberg area are expecting chaos to ensue after protesters gathered outside the Somaphepha village this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":73825,"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":[10010,12898,15568,16925,16923,16924,16926,15946,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-91083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic-update","tag-protests-at-soma-phepha-village","tag-protests-on-stoffberg-road","tag-soma-phepha-village","tag-stoffberg-farming-community","tag-traffic-alert","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic update","protests at soma phepha village","protests on stoffberg road","soma phepha village","stoffberg farming community","traffic alert","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91083","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=91083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}