{"id":207681,"date":"2025-09-20T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-minister-demands-end-to-corruption-in-traffic-police\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:55:04","slug":"mozambique-minister-demands-end-to-corruption-in-traffic-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-minister-demands-end-to-corruption-in-traffic-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Minister Demands End to Corruption in Traffic Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Interior Minister Paulo Chachine on Wednesday ordered the traffic police to strengthen their discipline, fight against corruption, and comply strictly with the law, in order to reduce the number of accidents on the country&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Speaking at a ceremony in the riot police barracks in Maputo, Chachine stressed how serious traffic accidents have become and the duty of the police to save lives. In the month of August alone, 87 people had died in 48 traffic accidents. Chachine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190044.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>Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Interior Minister Paulo Chachine on Wednesday ordered the traffic police to strengthen their discipline, fight against corruption, and comply strictly with the law, in order to reduce the number of accidents on the country&#8217;s roads. Speaking at a ceremony in the riot police barracks in Maputo, Chachine stressed how serious traffic accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4723,6979,5941,4704,682,257,662,254,9527],"class_list":["post-207681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-demands","tag-minister","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/207681","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=207681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}