{"id":78611,"date":"2013-05-24T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=78611"},"modified":"2013-05-24T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T09:06:29","slug":"e-toll-protesters-hit-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/78611-e-toll-protesters-hit-the-streets.html","title":{"rendered":"E-toll protesters hit the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of protesters at Cosatu&#8217;s Johannesburg headquarters took to marching down an adjacent street on Friday morning as they waited for feedback from officials.<\/p>\n<p>The group of around 50 sang anti-e-toll slogans and marched up and down Simmonds Street in Braamfontein.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Johannesburg metro police, the SA Police Service and provincial traffic officials kept a watchful eye.<\/p>\n<p>Congress of SA Trade Unions&#8217; Gauteng chairman Phutas Tseki was expected to brief the protesters soon.<\/p>\n<p>The trade union federation was deciding whether to go ahead with a drive-slow protest on the city&#8217;s highways. The Johannesburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday dismissed its application to do so. Cosatu approached the court after metro police refused it permission.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More e-toll news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/78537-cosatu-e-toll-protest-not-authorised.html\">Cosatu e-toll protest not authorised<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/78492-cosatu-e-toll-fight-gets-wide-support.html\">Cosatu e-toll fight gets wide support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/78346-cape-town-gets-interdict-against-winelands-e-toll.html\">Cape Town gets interdict against Winelands e-toll<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/78062-city-of-cape-town-wants-e-toll-report.html\">City of Cape Town wants e-toll report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/77770-cosatu-plans-to-march-against-e-tolls.html\">Cosatu plans to march against e-tolls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/76198-dont-be-fooled-into-buying-e-tags-samwu.html\">Don\u2019t be \u201cfooled\u201d into buying e-tags: SAMWU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/76148-da-politicising-e-toll-sanral.html\">DA politicising e-toll: SANRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/75713-western-cape-e-toll-will-create-5000-jobs-sanral.html\">Western Cape e-toll will create 5,000 jobs: SANRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of protesters at Cosatu&#8217;s Johannesburg headquarters took to marching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78496,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5756,6525,7979],"class_list":["post-78611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cosatu","tag-e-toll","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78611"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78615,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78611\/revisions\/78615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}