{"id":19721,"date":"2013-05-10T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/deputy-executive-mayor-defuses-tense-standoff-in-helenvale\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:19:31","slug":"deputy-executive-mayor-defuses-tense-standoff-in-helenvale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/deputy-executive-mayor-defuses-tense-standoff-in-helenvale\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Executive Mayor defuses tense standoff in Helenvale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Deputy Executive Mayor Thando Ngcolomba defused a tense situation in Helenvale late yesterday afternoon after community members went on a rampage to allegedly protest against the DA Ward Councillor Nico du Plessis.<\/p>\n<p>The furore is a continuation of tense protest action over the last couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcolomba said a meeting will be held this afternoon at 15:00 at an open space bordered by Ibex, Blesbok, Hartebees Streets and Standford Road. The area is known as Die Gaat.<\/p>\n<p>Standford Road, the main arterial road to the Northern Areas, was closed off for a large part of the day due to the protest action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Deputy Executive Mayor Thando Ngcolomba defused a tense situation in Helenvale late yesterday afternoon after community members went on a rampage to allegedly protest against the DA Ward Councillor Nico du Plessis. The furore is a continuation of tense protest action over the last couple of months. Ngcolomba said a meeting [&hellip;]<\/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-19721","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\/19721","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=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}