{"id":3972,"date":"2014-07-20T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2014-07-20T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T09:25:49","slug":"warning-for-travellers-headed-to-cape-town-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/travel-advisory\/warning-for-travellers-headed-to-cape-town-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning for travellers headed to Cape Town International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa, Cape Town &#8211; Two incidents involving an airport employee and a pilot in the last month have prompted a warning for travellers headed to Cape Town International Airport along the N2.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town airport roads have violent, armed gangs attacking and kidnapping travellers.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot narrowly escaped being robbed, while another airport employee was reportedly robbed and attacked along the N2 near the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Travellers are being warned of the modus operandi being used by these alleged hijackers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not drive over any cardboard boxes or plastic bags left in the middle of the road as these could contain cement or rocks and cause serious damage to the car.<\/li>\n<li>As the driver you are then forced to pull over, putting yourself at risk of ambush alongside the road.<\/li>\n<li>road users are advised to be especially careful during poor visibility or after dark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Travel\/South-Africa\/Travellers-warned-of-hijacking-risk-near-Cape-Town-airport-20140715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/saa-pilot-escapes-n2-attempted-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikkelz\/4986806813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mikkelz<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Travel &#8211; <a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/category\/travel-advisory\/\">Travel Advisory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa, Cape Town &#8211; Two incidents involving an airport employee and a pilot in the last month have prompted a warning for travellers headed to Cape Town International Airport along the N2. Cape Town airport roads have violent, armed gangs attacking and kidnapping travellers. A pilot narrowly escaped being robbed, while another airport employee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2518],"tags":[2570,2574,2573,2571,2572,2523,2532,2522,2682,2569],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel-advisory","tag-armed-gangs","tag-cape-town-airport-roads","tag-hijackers","tag-kidnapping-travellers","tag-n2-near-the-airport","tag-sa-travel","tag-south-africa-today-travel","tag-south-africa-travel","tag-travel-advisory","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}