{"id":40920,"date":"2019-09-05T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40920"},"modified":"2019-09-05T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T03:25:48","slug":"impounded-air-tanzania-plane-allowed-to-leave-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40920","title":{"rendered":"Impounded Air Tanzania plane allowed to leave SA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/855567\/400x225_855567.jpg?1567591046\" alt=\"South Africa court orders release of impounded Tanzanian plane\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> JOHANNESBURG, Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court has set aside an earlier decision to impound an Air Tanzania plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug 24, the plane, an Airbus 220-300, had been prevented from taking off from Johannesburg because of a court injunction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer had argued in court that a retired farmer was owed at least $13m (\u00a310.6m) in compensation after his land was seized by the Tanzanian government in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tanzanian authorities acknowledge that the farmer is owed money but their lawyer believes South Africa has no jurisdiction over the dispute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impounding at the time was seen as a major blow for Air Tanzania, after inaugurating its Johannesburg services just two months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanzania, like a number of national fliers, have high hopes on the revival of the national airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A move targeted at transforming the country\u2019s airline as a regional transport hub that is expected to stimulate the tourism sector, its largest source of revenue. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court has set aside an earlier decision to impound an Air Tanzania plane. On Aug 24, the plane, an Airbus 220-300, had been prevented from taking off from Johannesburg because of a court injunction. A lawyer had argued in court that a retired farmer was owed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/40920"}],"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=40920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}