{"id":8839,"date":"2013-08-09T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2013-08-09T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T08:53:41","slug":"arrests-for-looting-unrest-soweto-protea-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"Arrests for looting, violence in Soweto Protea South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/proteaprotest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8841\" alt=\"proteaprotest\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/proteaprotest-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/proteaprotest-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/proteaprotest.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Four more people have been arrested for looting at the troubled township of Protea South in Soweto. It brings to 25 the number of people arrested for public violence and looting since Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police in Soweto have remained on high alert following the violent protests. On Thursday authorities used rubber bullets to disperse crowds after they burnt electric boxes and damaged traffic lights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesting residents chased away Julius Malema&#8217;s Economic Freedom Fighters when they arrived at the scene of violent service delivery protests in Soweto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Malema told protesters at a violent protest in Kokosi Township in Fochville on the West Rand to fight for land. He also appealed to police deployed in the township to exercise restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more people have been arrested for looting at the troubled township of Protea South in Soweto. It brings to 25 the number of people arrested for public violence and looting since Thursday morning. Police in Soweto have remained on high alert following the violent protests. On Thursday authorities used rubber bullets to disperse crowds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arrests for looting, violence in Soweto Protea South&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3282,23,4944,206,1870,757],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-eff","tag-julius-malema","tag-protea-south","tag-protest","tag-service-delivery","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\/2013\/08\/proteaprotest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","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=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8845,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}