{"id":264743,"date":"2019-02-08T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=264743"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:01:13","slug":"ethiopian-shop-owner-kidnapped-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/264743","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian shop owner kidnapped in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers in South Africa have arrested and charged a man with kidnapping an Ethiopian shop owner in a town called eMbalenhle.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on February 23,\u00a02018. The Ethiopian man, who has been identified as\u00a0Tamre Seume, was kidnapped outside his shop.<\/p>\n<p>A group of three men reportedly arrived in a blue VW Polo car and forced Tamre to go with them at gunpoint. The kidnappers asked for a ransom of R3 million (about $220,398). The ransom was later reduced to about R1 million ($73,598).<\/p>\n<p>Tamre was in court on Friday along with members of the Ethiopian community in South Africa. A petition was presented to the court demanding that the kidnappers should not be granted bail. [&#8230;.] <a href=\"https:\/\/ridgetimes.co.za\/131989\/foreigners-custody-kidnapping-ethiopian-shopkeeper-embalenhle\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers in South Africa have arrested and charged a man with kidnapping an Ethiopian shop owner in a town called eMbalenhle. The incident occurred on February 23,\u00a02018. The Ethiopian man, who has been identified as\u00a0Tamre Seume, was kidnapped outside his shop. A group of three men reportedly arrived in a blue VW Polo car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":264748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kidnap-3-e1549634455646.jpg?fit=355%2C416&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16S3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264749,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743\/revisions\/264749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}