{"id":5399,"date":"2014-10-02T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:44:29","slug":"mozambique-president-gives-benz-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-president-gives-benz-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique president gives Benz back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo &#8211; Mozambique&#8217;s president has returned a luxury Mercedes-Benz given to him by a business association, admitting on Tuesday that the gift was a violation of the country&#8217;s public probity laws.<\/p>\n<p>Following public outrage at news that Armando Guebuza had received the keys to a $100 000 luxury sedan at a swanky gala dinner last week, his office told AFP the car had been returned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After having accepted the gift on this occasion, the head of state asked for the legality of the act to be verified,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>After being told he could run afoul of the law, Guebuza &#8220;declined it and gave the car back&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozambique News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Mozambique-president-gives-Benz-back-20140930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo &#8211; Mozambique&#8217;s president has returned a luxury Mercedes-Benz given to him by a business association, admitting on Tuesday that the gift was a violation of the country&#8217;s public probity laws. Following public outrage at news that Armando Guebuza had received the keys to a $100 000 luxury sedan at a swanky gala dinner last [&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":[654],"tags":[258,256,4234,683,4233,4704,682,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gift-was-a-violation-of-the-countrys-public-probity-laws","tag-maputo","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/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=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}