{"id":14178,"date":"2012-09-02T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-drops-murder-charges-against-miners-may-be-laid-again\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:40","slug":"s-africa-drops-murder-charges-against-miners-may-be-laid-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-drops-murder-charges-against-miners-may-be-laid-again\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa drops murder charges against miners, may be laid again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors<br \/>\nprovisionally dropped murder charges on Sunday against 270<br \/>\nminers accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by<br \/>\npolice but they could be recharged when investigations are<br \/>\ncomplete.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Final charges will only be made once all investigations<br \/>\nhave been completed. The murder charges against the current 270<br \/>\nsuspects will be formally withdrawn provisionally in court,&#8221;<br \/>\nNomgcobo Jiba, the acting national director of prosecutions,<br \/>\nsaid in a nationally televised news conference.<\/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, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors provisionally dropped murder charges on Sunday against 270 miners accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police but they could be recharged when investigations are complete. &#8220;Final charges will only be made once all investigations have been completed. The murder charges against the current 270 [&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-14178","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\/14178","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=14178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}