{"id":8010,"date":"2010-03-05T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:15:01","slug":"south-africa-student-protests-erupt-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/south-africa-student-protests-erupt-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Student protests erupt at university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?fsetid=1&#038;click_id=15&#038;art_id=nw20100304221736988C617977\">Student protests erupt at South African university<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water cannons, rocks, burning tyres and running battles between rioting students and the police occurred on Thursday at the University of Johannesburg&#8217;s Bunting Road campus.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was instigated by Sasco members after the student body called for the closure of nine universities across the country to demand free tertiary education.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of students gathered at the university&#8217;s campus, demanding free education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student protests erupt at South African university Water cannons, rocks, burning tyres and running battles between rioting students and the police occurred on Thursday at the University of Johannesburg&#8217;s Bunting Road campus. The protest was instigated by Sasco members after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/south-africa-student-protests-erupt-at-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2266,2273],"tags":[1288954,266],"class_list":["post-8010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protests","category-students","tag-protests","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}