{"id":1896,"date":"2012-09-23T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-09-23T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:33:40","slug":"over-290-arrested-in-soweto-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Over 290 arrested in Soweto over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1897\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1897\" title=\"soweto\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Soweto\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soweto, the black township south of Johannesburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 290 people were arrested in the Soweto area over the weekend for various crimes, Gauteng police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police arrested 298 people in Soweto over the weekend,&#8221; Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people were arrested for various crimes ranging from business robbery, armed robbery, house robbery, murder and sexual offences. From those arrested 190 were arrested for minor crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One firearm was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Makhubela said the people were expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate&#8217;s Court and the Roodepoort Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, police were looking for four people who held up a family in their home in Lenasia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The father was stabbed at the back of his head and died. The people fled with all the electric supplies. No arrests have been made and investigations continue.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 290 people were arrested in the Soweto area over the weekend for various crimes, Gauteng police said on Sunday. &#8220;Police arrested 298 people in Soweto over the weekend,&#8221; Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said. &#8220;The people were arrested for various crimes ranging from business robbery, armed robbery, house robbery, murder and sexual offences. From those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Over 290 arrested in Soweto over the weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,40,259,12250,757],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa","tag-soweto"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}