{"id":183963,"date":"2024-11-05T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-chief-says-he-escaped-assassination-attempt\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:30:16","slug":"mozambique-opposition-chief-says-he-escaped-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-chief-says-he-escaped-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Opposition Chief Says He Escaped Assassination Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em> Mozambique&#8217;s leading opposition politician, Venancio Mondlane, claimed in a video this Monday to have escaped an attempted assassination in South Africa where he had taken refuge after last month&#8217;s disputed elections. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mondlane rejects the results of the 9 October elections that the electoral authority says were won by the candidate of the Frelimo party, in power since 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He claims he won and has used social media to call for protests and strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;When I was in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/south-africa\/\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>, assassins were at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411050002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique&#8217;s leading opposition politician, Venancio Mondlane, claimed in a video this Monday to have escaped an attempted assassination in South Africa where he had taken refuge after last month&#8217;s disputed elections. Mondlane rejects the results of the 9 October elections that the electoral authority says were won by the candidate of the Frelimo party, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183964,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,3502,8083,6510,32716,4704,682,257,5675,254],"class_list":["post-183963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assassination","tag-attempt","tag-chief","tag-escaped","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/183963","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=183963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}