{"id":12083,"date":"2013-11-29T05:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T05:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T08:55:11","slug":"city-of-cape-town-obtained-interdict-against-squatter-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12083","title":{"rendered":"City of Cape Town obtained interdict against squatter protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5666\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cape_town.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5666\" alt=\"Cape Town, danger lurks here...\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cape_town-300x233.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cape_town-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cape_town.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The City of Cape Town obtained a court interdict preventing the city&#8217;s informal settlements&#8217; organisation from holding a march, said mayor Patricia de Lille.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The march was scheduled to take place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the order was obtained as a last resort on Thursday, Sapa reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">De Lille said she did not want to see a repetition of the disorder last month, when protesters claiming to be part of a service delivery demonstration looted shops and vendors&#8217; stalls, and damaged property in central Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One of the senior leaders of the group and ANC councillor in the City of Cape Town Loyiso Nkohla is quoted in today&#8217;s media reports saying that: &#8216;&#8230; we will only stop the march if a court of law says so,'&#8221; said De Lille.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the group&#8217;s application to march was not approved because of evidence indicating that it could disrupt vehicular and pedestrian traffic, result in injury to people, and possible damage to property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, the police said they were fully deployed for the march.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There will be heavy police deployments in the CBD as well as areas of congregation for the marchers,&#8221; said Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kinana said air support would be deployed if required and warned that protesters who broke the law would be arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cape Town obtained a court interdict preventing the city&#8217;s informal settlements&#8217; organisation from holding a march, said mayor Patricia de Lille. The march was scheduled to take place on Friday. She said the order was obtained as a last resort on Thursday, Sapa reported. De Lille said she did not want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Cape Town obtained interdict against squatter protest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[818,7436,1323,206],"class_list":["post-12083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-interdict","tag-patricia-de-lille","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\/06\/cape_town.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083","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=12083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}