{"id":13214,"date":"2019-07-21T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=13214"},"modified":"2019-07-21T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:25:55","slug":"the-anatomy-of-a-290-hectare-land-grab-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/the-anatomy-of-a-290-hectare-land-grab-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"The anatomy of a 290 hectare land grab, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by Suidlanders Media we see how approximately 290 hectares of private property in the South of Johannesburg is systematically been taken over. The video shows how over a period of time the land is simply been illegally occupied and illegal electrical connections made. Political rhetoric concerning land in South Africa is having a larger effect than most people realize. The video shows this large scale land grabbing. <\/p>\n<p>The government is doing nothing about it and Eskom, with regard the illegal connections even less. Clearly the government has chosen sides!<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eLd5ClljLT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/gauteng\/soweto-owes-over-r17-billion-to-eskom-what-about-all-the-illegal-connections\/\">Soweto owes over R17 billion to Eskom, what about all the illegal connections?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Soweto owes over R17 billion to Eskom, what about all the illegal connections?&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/gauteng\/soweto-owes-over-r17-billion-to-eskom-what-about-all-the-illegal-connections\/embed\/#?secret=eLd5ClljLT\" data-secret=\"eLd5ClljLT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by Suidlanders Media we see how approximately 290 hectares of private property in the South of Johannesburg is systematically been taken over. The video shows how over a period of time the land is simply been illegally occupied and illegal electrical connections made. Political rhetoric concerning land in South Africa is having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13217,"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":[2489,2677,8157,8155,8154,102,889,8156,7324,4628,6127],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-eskom","tag-government","tag-https-www-youtube-com-watchvxo3djkshq6u","tag-illegal-electrical-connections","tag-illegally-occupied","tag-johannesburg","tag-johannesburg-news","tag-land-grabbing","tag-land-in-south-africa","tag-private-property","tag-suidlanders-media","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","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=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}