{"id":19812,"date":"2015-07-23T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T07:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2015-07-23T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T07:56:27","slug":"mk-denies-plot-to-murder-prasa-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19812","title":{"rendered":"MK denies plot to murder PRASA chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) has denied claims of a plot to execute Prasa chairperson Popo Molefe.<\/p>\n<p>Molefe has opened a case of conspiracy to commit murder, claiming someone wants him dead.<\/p>\n<p>The rail agency&#8217;s chairperson alleges that some MK veterans held a meeting in May to discuss a plot to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>He alleges that those who attended the meeting were upset that the Prasa board had accepted former CEO Lucky Montana\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The MKMVA has dismissed the allegations as nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans&#8217; Associations\u2019 Kebby Maphatsoe said, \u201cI don\u2019t know of any plot to kill the chairperson of Prasa. I\u2019ve never been in a meeting of such a plot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I attended is a meeting that was convened by the MKMVA of Johannesburg and the purpose of that meeting was to discuss the benefits meant for military veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Source: eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) has denied claims of a plot to execute Prasa chairperson Popo Molefe. Molefe has opened a case of conspiracy to commit murder, claiming someone wants him dead. The rail agency&#8217;s chairperson alleges that some MK veterans held a meeting in May to discuss a plot to kill him. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MK denies plot to murder PRASA chairman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,3896,12129,107],"class_list":["post-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-mk","tag-murder-plot","tag-prasa"],"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\/19812","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\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}