{"id":11426,"date":"2013-11-01T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2013-11-01T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:11:03","slug":"traffic-diverted-in-johannesburg-for-economic-freedom-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11426","title":{"rendered":"Traffic diverted in Johannesburg for Economic Freedom Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/effer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11108\" alt=\"effer\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/effer-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/effer-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/effer.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Traffic will be diverted in Newtown on Friday during a protest march by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters against e-tolls, Johannesburg metro police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the protest would start from Mary Fitzgerald Square at 10am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They will proceed up Bree Street, turn right into Simmonds Street up to the office of the premier where a memorandum will be handed over,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They will return to Mary Fitzgerald Square along Fox Street and Miriam Makeba Street. The march should be over by 1pm and we are expecting about 2000 marchers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, the EFF in Gauteng said the implementation of e-tolling would rob Gauteng residents of their hard-earned money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EFF called on citizens, civil society and anyone opposed to e-tolling to reject the system, as it represented a &#8220;systematic and well planned robbery by the [President Jacob] Zuma-led African [National Congress] government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A legal challenge to e-tolling by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeal on October 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outa announced on October 18 it did not have money to continue the legal fight against e-tolling. Outa&#8217;s argument remained that the SA National Roads Agency Ltd and government did not conduct a proper public participation process. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic will be diverted in Newtown on Friday during a protest march by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters against e-tolls, Johannesburg metro police said. Spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the protest would start from Mary Fitzgerald Square at 10am. &#8220;They will proceed up Bree Street, turn right into Simmonds Street up to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic diverted in Johannesburg for Economic Freedom Fighters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[403,1391,239,206],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-e-toll","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-johannesburg","tag-protest"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/effer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}