{"id":9905,"date":"2013-09-02T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2013-09-02T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T08:45:55","slug":"blacks-hack-off-safety-barriers-in-johannesburg-to-sell-for-scrap-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9905","title":{"rendered":"Blacks hack off safety barriers in Johannesburg to sell for scrap metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9908\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9908\" alt=\"M1 motorway in Johannesburg\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-148x105.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-31x22.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-38x27.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg-304x215.jpg 304w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M1 motorway in Johannesburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four men have been arrested for allegedly stealing steel safety barricades from the M2 freeway, at the Joe Slovo offramp, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Metro police were alerted of four men cutting and removing the steel safety barricades [on Sunday]&#8230;Officers went to that area and found the men pushing the barricades in a trolley down the offramp,&#8221; said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Officers also found them with tools that were used to remove the barricades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The men were arrested and taken to the Johannesburg central police station. They are due to appear in the city&#8217;s magistrate&#8217;s court soon facing charges of theft of municipal property. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men have been arrested for allegedly stealing steel safety barricades from the M2 freeway, at the Joe Slovo offramp, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday. &#8220;Metro police were alerted of four men cutting and removing the steel safety barricades [on Sunday]&#8230;Officers went to that area and found the men pushing the barricades in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blacks hack off safety barriers in Johannesburg to sell for scrap metal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[156,239,5749,5750,256],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-blacks","tag-johannesburg","tag-safety-barriers","tag-scrap-metal","tag-theft"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/M1_bridge_johannesburg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","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=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9910,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}