{"id":9321,"date":"2012-04-08T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2012-04-08T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T08:57:30","slug":"cape-town-may-seize-driver-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/9321\/cape-town-may-seize-driver-cellphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town may seize driver cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town traffic officers nabbed 19 drivers using their cellphones within 90 minutes of the start of an awareness campaign, a newspaper reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday newspaper Rapport reported the city was now considering starting a database so that by a third similar offence, the offender&#8217;s cellphone would be seized.<\/p>\n<p>Such an offender would be allowed to remove the SIM card but would only get the phone back after a payment.<\/p>\n<p>Driving with a cellphone in your hand may cost you a fine of R500.<\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg metro police spokeswoman Supt Edna Mamonyane said it was becoming a serious problem as innocent people died due to drivers who used their cellphones behind the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town traffic officers nabbed 19 drivers using their cellphones within 90 minutes of the start of an awareness campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2279,2280,26,2281],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-cape-town","tag-edna-mamonyane","tag-headline","tag-rapport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}