{"id":11398,"date":"2012-06-12T23:09:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africas-zuma-fires-scandal-hit-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:52","slug":"s-africas-zuma-fires-scandal-hit-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-zuma-fires-scandal-hit-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Zuma fires scandal-hit police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma sacked police chief Bheki Cele on Tuesday in a rare<br \/>\ndismissal of a senior figure accused of corruption.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have decided to release General Cele of his duties,&#8221; Zuma<br \/>\ntold a news conference in Pretoria. He also announced a minor<br \/>\ncabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Peroshni Govender; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African President Jacob Zuma sacked police chief Bheki Cele on Tuesday in a rare dismissal of a senior figure accused of corruption. &#8220;I have decided to release General Cele of his duties,&#8221; Zuma told a news conference in Pretoria. He also announced a minor cabinet reshuffle. (Reporting by Peroshni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}