{"id":2545,"date":"2012-10-05T04:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2012-10-05T04:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:33:49","slug":"strikers-attack-truck-and-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Strikers attack truck and driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2546\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/torched_truck_N12b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2546\" title=\"torched_truck_N12b\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/torched_truck_N12b-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/torched_truck_N12b-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/torched_truck_N12b.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torched truck on the East Rand, N12 motorway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A truck driver and two other people were in hospital on Thursday after their truck was torched on the N12, Ekurhuleni metro police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The driver and his two co-drivers were seriously injured&#8230;. The three were battered by angry mob of striking truck drivers,&#8221; said spokesman Superintendent Vusi Mabanga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attackers ran away and no arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Striking truck drivers have been accused of violence and intimidation since the strike began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, two trucks were set alight and another was stoned in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talks to end the strike collapsed on Thursday when unions rejected a third offer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drivers wanted a 12 percent salary increase, while employers offered 8.5 percent for next year, and another 0.5 percent the following year. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver and two other people were in hospital on Thursday after their truck was torched on the N12, Ekurhuleni metro police said. &#8220;The driver and his two co-drivers were seriously injured&#8230;. The three were battered by angry mob of striking truck drivers,&#8221; said spokesman Superintendent Vusi Mabanga. The attackers ran away and no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strikers attack truck and driver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1610,12250,809,1608,1609,140],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arson","tag-south-africa","tag-strikers","tag-torched-truck","tag-truckers-strike","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/torched_truck_N12b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}