{"id":32245,"date":"2012-11-06T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32245"},"modified":"2012-11-06T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:31:48","slug":"bloomberg-south-africa-vineyards-burned-for-second-day-protests-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/06\/bloomberg-south-africa-vineyards-burned-for-second-day-protests-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: South Africa Vineyards Burned for Second Day Protests Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vineyards in South Africa\u2019s biggest table grape-growing region were torched for a second day by protesters wanting more pay, the Western Cape province\u2019s agricultural trade association said.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty hectares (123 acres) planted with grapes were incinerated yesterday near De Doorns, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Cape Town, Agri Wes-Cape spokeswoman Porchia Adams said by mobile phone from Cape Town today. Farmers are still assessing how much land was burned today, she said. De Doorns, which has 4,800 hectares of vineyards, is the largest producer of table grapes. South Africa is the continent\u2019s biggest grower of the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-11-06\/south-africa-vineyards-burned-for-second-day-protests-grow\" title=\"South Africa Protests\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vineyards in South Africa\u2019s biggest table grape-growing region were torched for a second day by protesters wanting more pay, the Western Cape province\u2019s agricultural trade association said. Fifty hectares (123 acres) planted with grapes were incinerated yesterday near De Doorns, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Cape Town, Agri Wes-Cape spokeswoman Porchia Adams said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32246,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions\/32246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}