{"id":9905,"date":"2018-07-20T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-rtmc-condemns-attack-by-a-taxi-driver-on-a-female-traffic-officer\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:04:22","slug":"the-rtmc-condemns-attack-by-a-taxi-driver-on-a-female-traffic-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-rtmc-condemns-attack-by-a-taxi-driver-on-a-female-traffic-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"The RTMC Condemns Attack by a taxi driver on a female Traffic Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Road Traffic Management Corporation strongly condemns the conduct of the driver who is alleged to have assaulted a female JMPD officer. We also call on the taxi association to come out and condemn this action which is tarnishing the image of their industry.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe officer suffered a bleeding nose and was taken to Milpark Hospital for treatment and the taxi driver is detained at the SAPS to face charges relating to attacking a law enforcement personnel.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&ldquo;As the Traffic fraternity we are extremely disappointed by the conduct of the suspect, it is disgraceful and we hope the taxi association he&rsquo;s affiliated to will take disciplinary measures against him&rdquo;.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe are also determined to restlessly see the offender prosecuted and convicted in order to send a strong warning to the public that; attacking a law enforcement officer is an attack on the state, Said&rdquo; Advocate Makhosini Msibi, CEO of the RTMC. We wish the officer a speedy recovery and hope that JMPD will provide her and family the support she deserves.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=2&#038;i=35111&#038;page=The-RTMC-Condemns-Attack-by-a-taxi-driver-on-a-female-Traffic-Officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Traffic Management Corporation strongly condemns the conduct of the driver who is alleged to have assaulted a female JMPD officer. We also call on the taxi association to come out and condemn this action which is tarnishing the image of their industry.&nbsp; &nbsp; The officer suffered a bleeding nose and was taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}