{"id":967425,"date":"2024-05-29T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967425"},"modified":"2024-05-29T05:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:17:50","slug":"police-on-high-alert-for-any-disruption-as-polls-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/police-on-high-alert-for-any-disruption-as-polls-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Police on high alert for any disruption as polls open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Voting stations nationally have started to open and will close at nine o\u2019clock tonight as South Africans are set to vote in the most highly-contested elections in 30 years of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned against disruptive protests as South Africans go to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKZN and Eastern Cape and other areas including in Mpumalanga, are a concern moving around, there are things we need to take a next look at. We\u2019ve got more than 17 000 of SAPS so we believe we are adequate and the response will be fine. What we\u2019ve instructed the police to do is to enforce the law and uphold the law, not negotiate. Anybody that breaks the law \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter who you are \u2013 we will have to be tough and enforce the law against that person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/944312-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two-thousand-800 soldiers have been deployed<\/a> to hotspots around the country to assist police to maintain law and order.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">2024 Elections | eThekwini a \u2018high-risk\u2019 threat to elections: Bheki Cele<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DO_-jXgNGYE?si=4nwrBCk2qPggNjWD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Voting stations nationally have started to open and will close at nine o\u2019clock tonight as South Africans are set to vote in the most highly-contested elections in 30 years of democracy. Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned against disruptive protests as South Africans go to the polls. \u201cKZN and Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":967426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1279,1925,2713,216,2784],"class_list":["post-967425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-elections","tag-30-years-of-democracy","tag-police-minister-bheki-cele","tag-saps","tag-south-africans-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}