{"id":221986,"date":"2026-01-26T23:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-manufacturing-enemies-inside-angolas-security-state\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:44:55","slug":"angola-manufacturing-enemies-inside-angolas-security-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-manufacturing-enemies-inside-angolas-security-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Manufacturing Enemies &#8211; Inside Angola&#8217;s Security State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola&#8217;s taxi drivers&#8217; strike, Serrote Jos\u00e9 de Oliveira &#8212; widely known as &#8220;General Nila&#8221; &#8212; has been held for over six months without formal charges. According to his family and lawyers, he remains in detention despite a guarantees judge&#8217;s order for his hospitalization and the rejection of a habeas corpus petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Earlier that morning, Nila was walking with his younger brothers, Bartolo and Pascoal, to Talatona Municipal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260719.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola&#8217;s taxi drivers&#8217; strike, Serrote Jos\u00e9 de Oliveira &#8212; widely known as &#8220;General Nila&#8221; &#8212; has been held for over six months without formal charges. According to his family and lawyers, he remains in detention despite a guarantees judge&#8217;s order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680590:a837d49c2f5cc623234c3d706aee5740:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,13368,21665,8271,257,4586,254,6017],"class_list":["post-221986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-enemies","tag-manufacturing","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680590:a837d49c2f5cc623234c3d706aee5740:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221986","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=221986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}