{"id":104090,"date":"2021-07-15T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104090"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:09:16","slug":"bbc-south-africa-looting-government-to-deploy-25000-troops-after-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104090","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) South Africa looting: Government to deploy 25,000 troops after unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of widespread looting and violence.<\/p>\n<p>The military deployment &#8211; to counter riots sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma &#8211; would be the biggest since the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>At least 117 people have died and more than 2,000 have been arrested in South Africa&#8217;s worst unrest in years.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted and the government says it is acting to prevent food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens are arming themselves and forming vigilante groups to protect their property from the rampage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-57848357\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South African government to deploy 25,000 troops after worst unrest in years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BgwZrZRIOi\">https:\/\/t.co\/BgwZrZRIOi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1415615603910615041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of widespread looting and violence. The military deployment &#8211; to counter riots sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma &#8211; would be the biggest since the end<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104090\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,151,523,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-south-africa-africa","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104094,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions\/104094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}