{"id":669286,"date":"2010-02-17T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22519"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:36:26","slug":"south-africa-zuma-bodyguards-raise-spectre-of-%e2%80%98police-state%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669286","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Zuma Bodyguards Raise Spectre of \u2018Police State\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/article\/2010-02-17-zuma-bodyguards-raise-spectre-of-police-state\">Mail &#38; Guardian<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/image\/square\/2010-02-17-reminiscent-of-mugabes-zimbabwe\/300\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>The arrest of a student for &#8220;swearing&#8221; at  President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s convoy is a tactic of a police state, not a  democracy, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> DA leader Helen Zille said the way the police acted was a reminder of  the actions of the apartheid-era security police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are reminiscent of Robert Mugabe&#8217;s Zimbabwe, which the African  National Congress is increasingly trying to emulate,&#8221; said Zille.<\/p>\n<p>Chumani Maxwele was arrested on Wednesday last week when he allegedly  showed his middle finger to Zuma&#8217;s convoy while he was jogging in De  Waal Street in Cape Town. He was arrested at gunpoint by police  officers.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly had a bag pulled over his head and was first taken to  Zuma&#8217;s residence, before he was taken to Rondebosch and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mail &#38; Guardian: The arrest of a student for &#8220;swearing&#8221; at President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s convoy is a tactic of a police state, not a democracy, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Wednesday. DA leader Helen Zille said the way the police acted was a reminder of the actions of the apartheid-era security police. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O6W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669286","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\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}