{"id":11544,"date":"2013-11-05T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:09:49","slug":"shots-fired-at-protesters-at-union-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11544","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired at protesters at Union Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockpaper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11540\" alt=\"The Apartheid Museum reminds visitors daily why violence pays\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockpaper-300x250.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockpaper-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockpaper.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Apartheid Museum reminds visitors daily why violence pays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shots were fired at protesters at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A shooting did take place at the Union Buildings where some people were injured,&#8221; said police spokesperson Tsekiso Mofokeng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mofokeng was responding to a statement by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng condemning &#8220;the shooting of Mooiplaas Community, who were in a process of a peaceful demonstration in Union Building [sic]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Four of the EFF members are arrested while others shot and injured are in hospital,&#8221; said Gauteng spokesperson Patrick Sindane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mofokeng said he would have more information later in the afternoon. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots were fired at protesters at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, police said. &#8220;A shooting did take place at the Union Buildings where some people were injured,&#8221; said police spokesperson Tsekiso Mofokeng. No further details were immediately available. Mofokeng was responding to a statement by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng condemning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shots fired at protesters at Union Buildings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1391,3282,139,5710,7304,6874],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-pretoria","tag-protesters","tag-shots-fired","tag-union-buildings"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockpaper.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","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=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11546,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/11546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}