{"id":207317,"date":"2025-09-16T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/south-africa-limpopo-villagers-demand-anc-councillor-be-removed\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:20:51","slug":"south-africa-limpopo-villagers-demand-anc-councillor-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/south-africa-limpopo-villagers-demand-anc-councillor-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Limpopo Villagers Demand ANC Councillor Be Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em> Residents of Relela village outside Tzaneen blocked roads during two days of protests <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Residents of Relela village, outside Tzaneen, Limpopo, protested for two days last week, demanding the removal of their ward councillor, accusing him of neglecting their village and diverting development projects elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">On 10 and 11 September, villagers blocked roads with burning tyres, trees and stones, forcing schools and businesses to close and bringing traffic to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Relela village outside Tzaneen blocked roads during two days of protests Residents of Relela village, outside Tzaneen, Limpopo, protested for two days last week, demanding the removal of their ward councillor, accusing him of neglecting their village and diverting development projects elsewhere. On 10 and 11 September, villagers blocked roads with burning tyres, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,5006,17818,7617,1174,257,15291,1135,5069,254,8542],"class_list":["post-207317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anc","tag-councillor","tag-demand","tag-limpopo","tag-news","tag-removed","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-villagers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207317","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}