{"id":6694,"date":"2013-07-05T06:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T06:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2013-07-05T06:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T06:49:57","slug":"mob-justice-in-motholo-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6694","title":{"rendered":"Mob justice in Motholo, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6695\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mob_justice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6695\" alt=\"A mob justice scene in South Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mob_justice-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mob_justice-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mob_justice.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mob justice scene in South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mob assaulted a man after he allegedly robbed a shop owned by a Somali national in Motholo on Friday, Limpopo police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Constable Moses Molepo said the 29-year-old man and two other men broke into the shop, assaulted and robbed the owner of an undisclosed amount of money and stock in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The one suspect was severely assaulted by members of the community and the other two fled the scene,&#8221; said Molepo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was in a critical condition under police guard at the Mankweng Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He would appear in court when he had recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mob assaulted a man after he allegedly robbed a shop owned by a Somali national in Motholo on Friday, Limpopo police said. Constable Moses Molepo said the 29-year-old man and two other men broke into the shop, assaulted and robbed the owner of an undisclosed amount of money and stock in the early hours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mob justice in Motholo, South Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3712,3709,3711,3713,3710],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-makweng-hospital","tag-mob-justice","tag-moses-molepo","tag-motholo","tag-somali"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mob_justice.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","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=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}