{"id":182841,"date":"2022-07-09T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182841"},"modified":"2022-07-09T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T03:59:43","slug":"south-africa-19-being-tried-for-involving-in-last-julys-unrest-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182841","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: 19 being tried for involving in last July&#8217;s unrest &#8211; minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over |  Reuters\" class=\"wp-image-182844\" width=\"833\" height=\"554\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/looting-violence-grips-south-africa-after-zuma-court-hearing-2021-07-13\/\">Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, July 9 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; South African Minister of Police Bheki Cele said that 19 people are being tried and prosecuted for their roles in last July&#8217;s unrest, which left more than 300 dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are regarded as &#8220;instigators&#8221; and the police are investigating another 86 people, Cele told a media briefing in Pretoria, providing update on the unrest with other ministers in the cluster of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise said the country is doing everything to prevent the recurrence of the unrest. &#8220;We are keeping our ears and eyes on the ground, we are monitoring what&#8217;s happening in the country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The civil unrest, which occurred mainly in South Africa&#8217;s KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from July 8 to 17, 2021, was sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests against the incarceration then turned into wider rioting and looting, which have caused an economic loss of over 3 billion U.S. dollars nationwide. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over PRETORIA, July 9 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; South African Minister of Police Bheki Cele said that 19 people are being tried and prosecuted for their roles in last July&#8217;s unrest, which left more than 300 dead. They are regarded as &#8220;instigators&#8221; and the police are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182846,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182841\/revisions\/182846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}