{"id":1737,"date":"2012-09-20T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2012-09-20T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:59:14","slug":"south-african-president-jacob-zuma-deploys-troops-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"South African President Jacob Zuma deploys troops in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SA National Defence Force has officially been deployed domestically from September 14 until next year in Marikana &#8220;and other areas of the country where needed&#8221;, the Presidency said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidency said in a short statement that the soldiers would be deployed to support the police &#8220;in the prevention and combating of crime as well as the maintenance of law and order in the Marikana area, North West province and other areas around the country where needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement did not detail where the other areas may be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deployment will last from September 14 until January 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The extended period will see the SANDF soldiers supporting the police during the festive season period around the country, as they did last year, 2011,&#8221; the statement read. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA National Defence Force has officially been deployed domestically from September 14 until next year in Marikana &#8220;and other areas of the country where needed&#8221;, the Presidency said in a statement on Thursday. The Presidency said in a short statement that the soldiers would be deployed to support the police &#8220;in the prevention and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South African President Jacob Zuma deploys troops in the country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[166,794,813,772,1226],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-marikana","tag-mining","tag-sandf","tag-troops"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}