{"id":178280,"date":"2024-08-10T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-blitz-on-holiday-traffic-offenders\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T19:21:29","slug":"zimbabwe-blitz-on-holiday-traffic-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-blitz-on-holiday-traffic-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Blitz On Holiday Traffic Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A large number of police, supported by reservists, are to be deployed on the roads to cut traffic accidents over Heroes&#8217; Days, the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Richard Hove, said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In an effort to cut back on the high Easter road toll, roadblocks would be set up along all major roads to check on overloading, speeding, and reckless driving, he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Driving standards have deteriorated &#8220;very badly&#8221;. There were too many accidents and a large number of cars were not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of police, supported by reservists, are to be deployed on the roads to cut traffic accidents over Heroes&#8217; Days, the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Richard Hove, said yesterday. In an effort to cut back on the high Easter road toll, roadblocks would be set up along all major roads to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,16926,5268,257,24443,254,9527,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blitz","tag-holiday","tag-news","tag-offenders","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}