{"id":11791,"date":"2019-01-18T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2019-01-18T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:45:48","slug":"xolobeni-mining-meeting-police-fire-stun-grenades-assault-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/xolobeni-mining-meeting-police-fire-stun-grenades-assault-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Xolobeni mining meeting: Police fire stun grenades assault community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video posted by &#8216;Mswati Channel&#8217; it was reported that Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Mineral Resources, at Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, apparently ordered police to shoot off stun grenades at the community of Xolobeni who don&#8217;t want mining in the area. Uniformed police officers can be seen beating up one of the community members who had attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Police also fired stun grenades as community members fled from the back of a huge white marquee, picking up and later slamming chairs to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video posted by &#8216;Mswati Channel&#8217; it was reported that Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Mineral Resources, at Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, apparently ordered police to shoot off stun grenades at the community of Xolobeni who don&#8217;t want mining in the area. Uniformed police officers can be seen beating up one of the community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[2626,2054,2973,7419,7414,7417,7420,7415,7418,7416],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-community","tag-gwede-mantashe","tag-mining","tag-minister-of-mineral-resources","tag-mswati-channel","tag-shoot","tag-stun-grenades","tag-xolobeni","tag-xolobeni-mining","tag-xolobeni-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}