{"id":11377,"date":"2013-10-29T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:39:42","slug":"mob-justice-for-ethiopians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11377","title":{"rendered":"Mob justice for Ethiopians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8741\" alt=\"saps4\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A foreigner has been beaten to death by a group of men in Secunda, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 30-year-old Ethiopian was attacked at his place of work on Saturday by a group of men who forced him into a taxi, Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe group attacked him with sticks and sjamboks&#8230; The men forced him into their kombi and drove with him to the taxi rank in Secunda,\u201d Mohlala said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They apparently accused the man of raping the six-year-old daughter of one of the men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUpon arrival at the taxi rank, they continued to assault the victim until he was unconscious&#8230; The victim sustained serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was taken to hospital and died of his injuries on Sunday. No arrests had been made by Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div>A foreign owned supermarket was also targeted in a botched robbery in Diepsloot. The incident has left another Ethiopian dead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Four armed robbers entered the Diepsloot supermarket late on Tuesday afternoon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A brief struggle ensued and the shop owner was shot dead. The cost of his life was the day&#8217;s takings at R450.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The incident is not uncommon on the township\u2019s crime ridden streets, but it has left residents questioning the police\u2019s ability to fight the scourge.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police are investigating a case of robbery and murder. No arrests have yet been made.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With the shop now indefinitely closed, plans are underway to return the victim\u2019s body to Ethiopia. &#8211; Sapa\/eNCA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreigner has been beaten to death by a group of men in Secunda, Mpumalanga police said on Monday. The 30-year-old Ethiopian was attacked at his place of work on Saturday by a group of men who forced him into a taxi, Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said in a statement. \u201cThe group attacked him with sticks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mob justice for Ethiopians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7192,3709,2564],"class_list":["post-11377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-ethiopian","tag-mob-justice","tag-xenophobia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11378,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377\/revisions\/11378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}