{"id":19616,"date":"2013-04-23T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2013-04-23T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T06:00:10","slug":"shops-looted-at-south-african-university-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/shops-looted-at-south-african-university-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shops Looted At South African University Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19617\" alt=\"universityprotestSA\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/universityprotestsa.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/universityprotestsa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/universityprotestsa-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Students looted shops at Walter Sisulu University&#8217;s Mthatha campus during a protest on Monday, the university said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The protest started around 10:00,&#8221; spokesperson Angela Church said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do understand it is mostly the book shop, snack shop and tuck shop that have been looted, not the library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did call the police and they took control of the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 300 students took part in the protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It only took place at the Nelson Mandela Drive campus in Mthatha and the rest of the campuses are operating as normal, including the other Mthatha campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university had scheduled a meeting with the Student Representative Council for 11:00 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Cape police were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_htmlAccreditationName\">&#8211; SAPA<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>As usual no one will be held accountable for the damage, no problem it&#8217;s just South Africa, I suppose we should be lucky no one died.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Students looted shops at Walter Sisulu University&#8217;s Mthatha campus during a protest on Monday, the university said. &#8220;The protest started around 10:00,&#8221; spokesperson Angela Church said. &#8220;We do understand it is mostly the book shop, snack shop and tuck shop that have been looted, not the library. &#8220;We did call the police and they took control of the situation.&#8221; About 300 students took part in the protest. &#8220;It only took place at the Nelson Mandela Drive campus in Mthatha and the rest of the campuses are operating as<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/shops-looted-at-south-african-university-protest\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}