{"id":175201,"date":"2024-06-25T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-iol-and-independent-media-condemn-threats-against-journalists-editors-and-dr-iqbal-surve-over-renaldo-gouws-story\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:16:11","slug":"namibia-iol-and-independent-media-condemn-threats-against-journalists-editors-and-dr-iqbal-surve-over-renaldo-gouws-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-iol-and-independent-media-condemn-threats-against-journalists-editors-and-dr-iqbal-surve-over-renaldo-gouws-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Iol and Independent Media Condemn Threats Against Journalists, Editors and Dr Iqbal Surv\u00e9 Over Renaldo Gouws Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>IOL and Independent Media condemn the appalling abuse and threats directed at several of our journalists, editors, our proprietor Dr. Iqbal Surv\u00e9, and his family following the publication of a story involving a racist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/watch-kill-the-kffirs-kill-all-the-fing-nggers-new-racist-video-of-da-mp-renaldo-gouws-surfaces-385317ac-4720-4ac8-9f41-8ae0ec7b351d\" rel=\"noopener\">video created by DA MP Renaldo Gouws<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">These threats, including those of a violent nature, are intolerable and will be addressed with the utmost seriousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">We will not be cowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The video clip which formed the basis of the story was initially leaked to IOL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Our editorial teams&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406240636.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOL and Independent Media condemn the appalling abuse and threats directed at several of our journalists, editors, our proprietor Dr. Iqbal Surv\u00e9, and his family following the publication of a story involving a racist video created by DA MP Renaldo Gouws. These threats, including those of a violent nature, are intolerable and will be addressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6764,12977,48866,7523,48862,48863,1654,4959,4706,724,257,48865,254,12231,48864,7611],"class_list":["post-175201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemn","tag-editors","tag-gouws","tag-independent","tag-iol","tag-iqbal","tag-journalists","tag-media","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-renaldo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-story","tag-surve","tag-threats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}