{"id":4024,"date":"2014-08-26T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:57:36","slug":"holidaymaker-in-south-africa-robbed-16-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/travel-advisory\/holidaymaker-in-south-africa-robbed-16-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidaymaker in South Africa robbed 16 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa -Gauteng man Timothy van Biljon (34) has warned travelers to the South Coast to be extra vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after he was robbed 16 times, he says, while on holiday in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was beaten up and an amount of R800 stolen from him. This was money he was going to use to get home.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that he was robbed at taxi stops and train stations on the coast, while trying to return home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was armed with pepper spray but it didn\u2019t help,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fed-up with the crime in KwaZulu-Natal, and I am desperate to get home,\u201d he added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/southcoastherald.co.za\/53839\/visitor-desperate-to-get-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Travel &#8211; <a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/category\/travel-advisory\/\">Travel Advisory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa -Gauteng man Timothy van Biljon (34) has warned travelers to the South Coast to be extra vigilant. This comes after he was robbed 16 times, he says, while on holiday in the area. He said he was beaten up and an amount of R800 stolen from him. This was money he was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2518],"tags":[2643,2644,2642,2558,2541,2636,2523,2532,2522,2593,2639,2635,2637,2607,2682,2638,2611,2612,2640,2641],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel-advisory","tag-beaten-up","tag-crime-in-kwazulu-natal","tag-holiday-in-the-area","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-robbed","tag-robbed-at-taxi-stops","tag-sa-travel","tag-south-africa-today-travel","tag-south-africa-travel","tag-south-africa-travel-advisory","tag-south-coast","tag-south-coasters","tag-train-stations","tag-travel","tag-travel-advisory","tag-travelers-to-the-south-coast","tag-travelling","tag-visit-south-africa","tag-warned-travelers","tag-warned-travelers-to-the-south-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}