{"id":9280,"date":"2013-08-18T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9280"},"modified":"2013-08-18T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T12:36:38","slug":"15-illegal-soweto-taverns-shut-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9280","title":{"rendered":"15 illegal Soweto taverns shut by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shebeen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9281\" alt=\"shebeen\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shebeen-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shebeen-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shebeen.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fifteen illegal taverns around Soweto were shut down on the weekend, Gauteng police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The owners were arrested and the liquor confiscated,&#8221; said Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the taverns were found in Eldorado Park, Zola, Diepkloof, Protea Glen and Dobsonville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of other arrests in those areas were conducted on Saturday night &#8211; many related to drug dealing and abuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhubela said the arrested would appear in various magisrate&#8217;s courts on Monday. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen illegal taverns around Soweto were shut down on the weekend, Gauteng police said on Sunday. &#8220;The owners were arrested and the liquor confiscated,&#8221; said Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela. He said the taverns were found in Eldorado Park, Zola, Diepkloof, Protea Glen and Dobsonville. A number of other arrests in those areas were conducted on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;15 illegal Soweto taverns shut by police&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5232,1007,4430,5231,757,5230],"class_list":["post-9280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-alcohol","tag-drugs","tag-illegal","tag-shebeen","tag-soweto","tag-taverns"],"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\/shebeen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280","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=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}