{"id":9102,"date":"2013-08-14T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2013-08-14T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T08:48:17","slug":"kwadukuza-protests-calm-after-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9102","title":{"rendered":"KwaDukuza protests calm after promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9103\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9103\" alt=\"Kwadukuza\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KwaDukuza protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KwaZulu-Natal Human Settlements MEC Ravi Pillay says he is confident that there will be no further service delivery protests and disruptions in KwaDukuza on the north coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week residents barricaded the R102 with rocks and burning tyres and disrupted schooling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the issues the residents raised was that of a lack of housing delivery. Pillay yesterday held a meeting with the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says residents wanted reassurance that the housing project was on track. Pillay says, &#8220;The project is on track in the planning stages and I gave them a detailed report in the lay out plans that have been done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pillay adds that they agreed to re configure the project steering committee to get better representation from the communities, to ensure that there is more effective communication with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says he is confident that normality will resume. &#8211; SABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu-Natal Human Settlements MEC Ravi Pillay says he is confident that there will be no further service delivery protests and disruptions in KwaDukuza on the north coast. Earlier this week residents barricaded the R102 with rocks and burning tyres and disrupted schooling. One of the issues the residents raised was that of a lack of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KwaDukuza protests calm after promises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,5107,206,1870,140],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-kwadukuza","tag-protest","tag-service-delivery","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\/2013\/08\/kwaduduza.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}