{"id":186169,"date":"2024-12-09T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tout-dies-in-clashes-between-bus-operators\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:14:38","slug":"zimbabwe-tout-dies-in-clashes-between-bus-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tout-dies-in-clashes-between-bus-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tout Dies in Clashes Between Bus Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">A tout was killed at a bus rank in Chiredzi last week following clashes over passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A crisis meeting by Chiredzi Town Council and the police resulted in Inter-Africa and Stallion Cruise bus operators being allocated separate ranks to curb such wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">One of the bus companies now uses the old rank, while the other uses the new rank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Commuters were frequently harassed when boarding buses in Chiredzi with the touts in control at any particular time effectively forcing passengers to board the bus&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060384.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 tout was killed at a bus rank in Chiredzi last week following clashes over passengers. A crisis meeting by Chiredzi Town Council and the police resulted in Inter-Africa and Stallion Cruise bus operators being allocated separate ranks to curb such wars. One of the bus companies now uses the old rank, while the other [&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":[258,256,3011,12379,6868,257,6169,254,24671,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bus","tag-clashes","tag-dies","tag-news","tag-operators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tout","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186169","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=186169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186169\/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=186169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}