{"id":18727,"date":"2021-04-23T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:41:24","slug":"political-narratives-vs-contested-truths-will-the-case-in-piet-retief-be-a-repeat-of-coligny-mistrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/political-narratives-vs-contested-truths-will-the-case-in-piet-retief-be-a-repeat-of-coligny-mistrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Narratives vs Contested Truths: Will the case in Piet Retief be a repeat of Coligny mistrial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Big Daddy Liberty&#8217; we see an interview with Daily Friend journalist, Gabriel Crouse, who was on the ground and covered the events in and around the court case in Piet Retief (Mkhondo). Politicians and the mainstream media have had a field day whipping up racial narratives by pouncing on these events. <\/p>\n<p>This comes after two brothers, Zenzele and Mgcini Coka, were shot dead and five people, 4 white farmers and one black farm manager, were arrested for the alleged murder. &#8216;We\u2019ve heard at nauseam the political narratives, but what of the facts?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Big Daddy Liberty&#8217; we see an interview with Daily Friend journalist, Gabriel Crouse, who was on the ground and covered the events in and around the court case in Piet Retief (Mkhondo). Politicians and the mainstream media have had a field day whipping up racial narratives by pouncing on these events. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[9496,2104,7465,10256,10254,10255,4761,10260,245,6639,10257,10253,6640,4992,10258,42,10259],"class_list":["post-18727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-big-daddy-liberty","tag-coligny","tag-coligny-news","tag-court-case","tag-daily-friend-journalist","tag-gabriel-crouse","tag-mainstream-media","tag-mgcini-coka","tag-murder","tag-piet-retief","tag-piet-retief-court-case","tag-piet-retief-farmers","tag-piet-retief-news","tag-politicians","tag-racial-narratives","tag-white-farmers","tag-zenzele-coka"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxn5MH-dDLg&t=291s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727","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=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}