{"id":3209,"date":"2014-06-26T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T04:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T04:25:48","slug":"zambia-charges-activists-claiming-president-sata-was-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-charges-activists-claiming-president-sata-was-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia charges activists claiming President Sata was dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka &#8211; Zambian authorities have charged three opposition activists accused of claiming that President Michael Sata was dying, amid rumours over the elderly statesman&#8217;s health, one of the activists said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three supporters of the United Party for National Development are said to have distributed pamphlets in a slum in the capital Lusaka, urging people to vote for their presidential candidate in the 2016 elections, as Sata might die soon.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Fresher Siwale, told AFP that the charge was fabricated, saying they were \u201cnot privy to Sata&#8217;s health status. It&#8217;s all political\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zambia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/zambia-charges-activists-over-rumours-1.1709509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka &#8211; Zambian authorities have charged three opposition activists accused of claiming that President Michael Sata was dying, amid rumours over the elderly statesman&#8217;s health, one of the activists said on Wednesday. The three supporters of the United Party for National Development are said to have distributed pamphlets in a slum in the capital Lusaka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,987,257,993,254,4693,1697,4709,881],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lusaka","tag-news","tag-president-michael-sata","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-united-party-for-national-development","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}