{"id":5549,"date":"2015-01-30T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:56:32","slug":"south-africans-helping-fight-boko-haram-should-be-arrested-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africans-helping-fight-boko-haram-should-be-arrested-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans helping fight Boko Haram should be arrested: Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Africans going to help the Nigerian army against terror group Boko Haram should be arrested on their return, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said, according to a media report.<\/p>\n<p>She labelled them &#8220;mercenaries&#8221; in comments made to reporters on the eve of the African Union&#8217;s summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The Beeld has reported that a multinational team of over 100 private military experts was on its way to Nigeria to help against Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Former soldiers of the SA Defence Force [the predecessor of the SA National Defence Force] formed the core.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are consequences when somebody leaves the country and provides any form of military assistance that is not part of the government&#8217;s deployment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The police and prosecuting authority should make examples of the group by charging them under the regulation on Foreign Military Assistance Act.<\/p>\n<p>Their team leader said they were not mercenaries, but would provide training in terms of a contract with the Nigerian government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2015\/01\/29\/south-africans-helping-fight-boko-haram-should-be-arrested-defence-minister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Africans going to help the Nigerian army against terror group Boko Haram should be arrested on their return, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said, according to a media report. She labelled them &#8220;mercenaries&#8221; in comments made to reporters on the eve of the African Union&#8217;s summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Beeld has reported [&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":[249],"tags":[258,256,580,355,4408,257,4687,393,1126,4406,4407,254,4692],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-boko-haram","tag-foreign-military-assistance-act","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian-army","tag-nosiviwe-mapisa-nqakula","tag-sa-defence-force","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","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=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/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=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}