{"id":92958,"date":"2015-07-11T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=92958"},"modified":"2015-07-11T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T16:39:42","slug":"more-than-550-joburg-windscreen-washers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/92958\/more-than-550-joburg-windscreen-washers-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 550 Joburg windscreen washers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 550 illegal windscreen washers have been arrested in Johannesburg since February, metro police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two were arrested today. There have been more than 550 arrested at intersections around Johannesburg \u00a0since February 2015,&#8221; Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar told News24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The offenders are taken to police stations and given the option of paying a R300 fine or appearing in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that of those arrested, several were foreigners who were eventually deported, while those who were homeless were taken to the city shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The washers often spray water on motorists&#8217; windscreens at intersections and attempt to clean them, before asking for money in return.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/More-than-550-Joburg-windscreen-washers-arrested-20150711\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cape Town impounds 200 Uber cars\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/92138\/cape-town-impounds-200-uber-cars\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cape Town impounds 200 Uber cars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uber looking at driverless cars\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/78931\/uber-looking-at-driverless-cars\/\"><strong>Uber looking at driverless cars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uber creates 2,000 jobs in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77993\/uber-creates-2000-jobs-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>Uber creates 2,000 jobs in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 550 illegal windscreen washers have been arrested in Johannesburg since February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":92964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,1995,10114],"class_list":["post-92958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-joburg","tag-window-washers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92962,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92958\/revisions\/92962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}