{"id":546586,"date":"2005-07-21T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546586-anti-telkom-protestors-hit-the-streets-once-again.html"},"modified":"2005-07-21T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T14:01:59","slug":"anti-telkom-protestors-hit-the-streets-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546586-anti-telkom-protestors-hit-the-streets-once-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Telkom protestors hit the streets once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Their protest is loud and clear and this time it just happens to be on The Star graffiti wall on Jan Smuts Avenue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cTelkom \u2013 R6.8 billion profit last year. Telkom is ripping YOU off,\u201d is the message sprayed across the graffiti wall.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Yesterday, AntiTrust members gathered to paint their message of protest against Telkom in red with the aim of heightening awareness amoung the South African public regarding what they call the \u201cexcessively high costs of telecommunications in South Africa.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A secondary but no less important goal is to place pressure on government to speed up the liberalization of the telecommunications sector according to Anti-Trust member Debbie Love.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Anti-Trust members reported that many motorists hooted and cheered as they were passing with one motorist even commenting that the slogan should be bigger.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This is not the first time Anti-Trust has hit the streets to protest against Telkom. Earlier this month, AntiTrust launched a public protest in Rosebank and distributed anti-Telkom flyers in an attempt to draw attention to the issue of telecommunications costs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom was unfortunately unavailable for comment.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the anti-Telkom activist group called AntiTrust is on the rampage. Same message just a different venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}