{"id":10924,"date":"2012-05-31T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/the-latest-from-walmer\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:28:22","slug":"the-latest-from-walmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-latest-from-walmer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest from Walmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An interesting conversation is progressing in the comments section of this article \u2013 Strangely Enough I Find Myself Sympathising With Walmer Township Protesters<\/a> \u2013 on MyPE.<\/p>\n

We would appreciate your opinion there and, more importantly, ideas on how to solve everyone\u2019s concerns amicably because, let\u2019s face it, our current crop of political masters look like they need a bit of help.<\/p>\n

Over on Twitter this is what people are saying:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black smoke hanging over Walmer Township, PE. Another day of service un-delivery protests. Municipal manager R2m\/year bucket system alive.<\/span>about 2 hours ago<\/a> via Twitter for iPhone<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nSinyile abantu abahlala eLovemore nase walmer this up rising in the location is huge inconvenience ,we stuck in huge traffic jam ,Fok man<\/span>about 2 hours ago<\/a> via Twitter for BlackBerry\u00ae<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nMorning all. There’s more unrest in Walmer Township this morning. Good people were prevented from going to work today. #rubbish<\/a><\/span>about 3 hours ago<\/a> via Twitter for BlackBerry\u00ae<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nMayor to address Walmer residents after protests http:\/\/t.co\/WCI1RNVr<\/a><\/span>about 3 hours ago<\/a> via dlvr.it<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nPolice are on high alert in the Walmer Township area of Port Elizabeth after having to use water canon and stun… http:\/\/t.co\/yqw9RGwT<\/a><\/span>about 3 hours ago<\/a> via Facebook<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nLet me go so I can escape Walmer traffic. http:\/\/t.co\/J5tAC5ef<\/a><\/span>about 4 hours ago<\/a> via UberSocial for BlackBerry<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nRE: Gently Siya – attacking the man and not the ball is not how you will solve a problem.Realising that the municip\u2026 http:\/\/t.co\/jC8pzcDQ<\/a><\/span>about 19 hours ago<\/a> via DISQUS<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nRE: Straight Talk? The affected people only know about violent protest – it is what they did to help overthrow aparth\u2026 http:\/\/t.co\/k6FYn9V8<\/a><\/span>about 21 hours ago<\/a> via DISQUS<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nWill someone please explain to me why the LACK of Service Delivery has a #ServiceDelivery<\/a> hashtag? http:\/\/t.co\/WTasQl7B<\/a><\/span>30 May 2012 9:08 am<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\n@NMandelaBay<\/a> Burns this morning after more protests in Walmer. Avoid Victoria Drive if in the area. Not safe @MyPE<\/a> http:\/\/t.co\/4RaCj5ft<\/a><\/span>about 2 hours ago<\/a> via Twitter for BlackBerry\u00ae<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\n@MyPE<\/a> Inaction leads to mass action. By 1 – voters, 2 – municipality, 3 -police. Vote properly\/fire people\/police the law #Thinendofthewedge<\/a><\/span>about 1 hour ago<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nNow on Metro: Walmer service delivery protests enter day three http:\/\/t.co\/zJfGyZpV<\/a><\/span>about 2 hours ago<\/a> via dlvr.it<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nNceba Faku is so useless, glad they stoned his car. Walmer Township folk don’t play!<\/span>about 2 hours ago<\/a> via UberSocial for BlackBerry<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nSo the Walmer protestors are being allowed to disrupt and destroy for yet another day<\/span>about 1 hour ago<\/a> via Facebook<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\n@MyPE<\/a> I’m all for a good protest every now and then but this is too much. Those who want to work should not be intimidated. #enoughisenough<\/a><\/span>31 minutes ago<\/a> via web<\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
\nOh gosh.. So no school tfn? RT @blazefingerz<\/a>: But thse strikes in walmer loction now really wats burning schools going to do?<\/span>37 minutes ago<\/a> via UberSocial for BlackBerry<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/a>
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An interesting conversation is progressing in the comments section of this article \u2013 Strangely Enough I Find Myself Sympathising With Walmer Township Protesters \u2013 on MyPE. We would appreciate your opinion there and, more importantly, ideas on how to solve everyone\u2019s concerns amicably because, let\u2019s face it, our current crop of political masters look like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-10924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}