{"id":12525,"date":"2014-01-06T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2014-01-06T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:40:56","slug":"man-arrested-for-firing-shots-at-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12525","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for firing shots at protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kagiso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12526\" alt=\"kagiso\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kagiso.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kagiso.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kagiso-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man has been arrested after firing shots during a protest \u00a0in Kagiso, Krugersdorp, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is accused of discharging a firearm and was\u00a0taken into custody on Saturday after a protest erupted in the area, said Brigadier Sipho Ngubane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kagiso residents took to the streets over the weekend, demanding that mining activities in the area be stopped immediately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They were complaining that the mining activities in the area were damaging their houses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the roads were still blocked with stones and burnt tyres, although\u00a0Ngubane said the situation was calm on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said on Sunday police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters who were throwing stones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A municipal and a police vehicle were badly damaged by stones thrown by protesters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one was arrested on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police would be deployed until the situation returned to normal, said Ngubane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A meeting between the department of mineral resources and the mining company is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after firing shots during a protest \u00a0in Kagiso, Krugersdorp, Gauteng police said. He is accused of discharging a firearm and was\u00a0taken into custody on Saturday after a protest erupted in the area, said Brigadier Sipho Ngubane. Kagiso residents took to the streets over the weekend, demanding that mining activities in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man arrested for firing shots at protest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[758,33,813,315,210],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kagiso","tag-krugersdorp","tag-mining","tag-protests","tag-saps"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kagiso.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","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=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}