{"id":54678,"date":"2019-12-14T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54678"},"modified":"2019-12-14T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:55:16","slug":"gang-violence-flares-up-again-in-cape-town-despite-army-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54678","title":{"rendered":"Gang violence flares up again in Cape Town despite army deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/85E2\/production\/_107847243_capetownafp.jpg\" alt=\"A women carries her child outside her shack at Imizamo Yethu settlement on May 17, 2018 in Hout Bay outside Cape Town, South Africa.\"\/><figcaption>Cape Town is surrounded by many sprawling townships where gang violence, poverty and unemployment are rife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Dec 14 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Gang violence flared up again here on Friday after a gang leader was killed despite the deployment of troops tasked to bring stability to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rashied Staggie, leader of the Hard Livings gang, was shot dead early Friday in a car in front of his house in Salt River, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staggie&#8217;s killing followed the shooting and death of another gang member in Cape Town&#8217;s Mitchells Plain on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have sent forensic experts to the shooting scenes. The motives behind the two killings remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 18, the South African National Defence Force began deploying troops in parts of Cape Town to help quell rising gang violence which claims dozens of lives every week. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, Dec 14 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Gang violence flared up again here on Friday after a gang leader was killed despite the deployment of troops tasked to bring stability to the area. Rashied Staggie, leader of the Hard Livings gang, was shot dead early Friday in a car in front of his house in Salt [&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\/54678"}],"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=54678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}