{"id":10756,"date":"2013-09-30T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2013-09-30T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:28:47","slug":"disgruntled-black-residents-rise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10756","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled black residents rise up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5261\" alt=\"Burning tyres, a regular occurrence in South Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres-300x196.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burning tyres, a regular occurrence in South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disgruntled residents of Orange Grove in East London are threatening to make the Buffalo City Metro ungovernable. This after a meeting with Buffalo City Metro mayor Zukiswa Ncitha failed to yield positive results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents are demanding RDP houses from the municipality. It&#8217;s alleged that the municipality has discovered that some of those on the list to get RDP houses do not actually qualify for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a 17-year old girl has been shot dead during service delivery protests in Cato Crest near Durban. The young woman was part of a group demanding RDP houses that clashed with police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another protest incident, protesters at Mooiplaas informal settlement in Pretoria West have stoned police Nyalas, following an apparent service delivery protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stoning of police vehicles comes after the R55 that connects Pretoria and Sandton was re-opened early Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesters blocked the road with burning tyres and rocks in the morning. Police say there are unconfirmed allegations that some shops in the area have been burned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protesters were meeting community leaders and officials of the Tshwane metro. &#8211; Additional Reporting by Sapa<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled residents of Orange Grove in East London are threatening to make the Buffalo City Metro ungovernable. This after a meeting with Buffalo City Metro mayor Zukiswa Ncitha failed to yield positive results. Residents are demanding RDP houses from the municipality. It&#8217;s alleged that the municipality has discovered that some of those on the list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disgruntled black residents rise up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6607,3085,6608,6610,6609,206,6606,3126],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-buffalo-city-metro","tag-burning-tyres","tag-cato-crest","tag-mooiplaas","tag-pretoria-west","tag-protest","tag-rdp-houses","tag-ungovernable"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Burning-tyres.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}