{"id":7499,"date":"2013-07-21T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2013-07-21T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:03:56","slug":"johannesburg-airport-gang-robs-former-deputy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7499","title":{"rendered":"Johannesburg airport gang robs former deputy minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7500\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/O-R-Tambo-International-Airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7500\" alt=\"Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg, rechristened by the ANC to 'OR Tambo airport'\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/O-R-Tambo-International-Airport-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/O-R-Tambo-International-Airport-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/O-R-Tambo-International-Airport.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg, rechristened by the ANC to &#8216;OR Tambo airport&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi has been robbed by a gang which targets people leaving OR Tambo International Airport, in Kempton Park, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Quite clearly, they were rushed. They just grabbed the suitcases,&#8221; Moleketi was quoted as telling the newspaper about the attack at his home in Observatory on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moleketi, who chairs the Development Bank of Southern Africa, had returned from a G20 meeting in Russia on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Obviously, they followed us [from the airport]. As we entered our house, they blocked the sensor [of the gate] and ran out with guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moleketi reportedly said the items stolen were worth about R70,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police reportedly confirmed to the Sunday Times that an investigation was underway. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi has been robbed by a gang which targets people leaving OR Tambo International Airport, in Kempton Park, the Sunday Times reported. &#8220;Quite clearly, they were rushed. They just grabbed the suitcases,&#8221; Moleketi was quoted as telling the newspaper about the attack at his home in Observatory on Saturday. Moleketi, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Johannesburg airport gang robs former deputy minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,4085,239],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-jan-smuts-airport","tag-johannesburg"],"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\/O-R-Tambo-International-Airport.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}