{"id":4726,"date":"2013-06-02T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:46:42","slug":"more-xenophobic-attacks-in-kroonstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4726","title":{"rendered":"More xenophobic attacks in Kroonstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kroonstad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4727\" title=\"kroonstad\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kroonstad-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Kroonstad in the Orange Free State, South Africa\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kroonstad-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/kroonstad.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The situation in Maokeng, Kroonstad, in the Free State was calm on Saturday after service delivery protests earlier in the week, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is still quiet, nothing is happening,&#8221; Sergeant Thabo Litabe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, he said local residents were angry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They wanted to protest over services they got from the municipality. They then decided to go to the foreigners&#8217; shops and looted them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said no arrests had been made but a case of public violence had been opened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police were not sure how many shops had been looted, because no shop owners had come forward yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kroonstad is the fourth area hit by a spate of violence against foreigners. The others are Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, Diepsloot in Gauteng, and the Vaal. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation in Maokeng, Kroonstad, in the Free State was calm on Saturday after service delivery protests earlier in the week, police said. &#8220;It is still quiet, nothing is happening,&#8221; Sergeant Thabo Litabe said. On Thursday, he said local residents were angry. &#8220;They wanted to protest over services they got from the municipality. They then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More xenophobic attacks in Kroonstad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2867,12250,2564],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kroonstad","tag-south-africa","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\/06\/kroonstad.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","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=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}