{"id":75439,"date":"2014-12-08T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/75439\/social-media-users-react-dewani-acquittal\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:05:11","slug":"social-media-users-react-dewani-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/08\/social-media-users-react-dewani-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Dewani case dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dewani, who was accused of orchestrating his wife&#8217;s murder in November 2010, was discharged\u00a0following the dismissal of the case by Judge Traverso. According to the Judge, the testimony provided by the prosecution&#8217;s main witness Zola Tongo was &#8220;highly debatable&#8221;and &#8220;riddled with contradictions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal of the case has left South Africans fuming, and many took to social media to air their opinions on the matter:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The State must appeal the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShrienDewani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShrienDewani<\/a> ruling. Anni deserves justice!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mkhuleko Hlengwa MP (@MkhulekoHlengwa) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MkhulekoHlengwa\/status\/541910225704718337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShrienDewani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShrienDewani<\/a> case thrown out?! This is madness. Courts didn&#39;t want any more publicity in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SouthAfrica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SouthAfrica<\/a> ? Why extradite? Cost to taxpayer?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; peeiii (@CityMaverick) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CityMaverick\/status\/541909747017211904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liam_JV\/status\/541883776817975296<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two young women lost their lives and it seems the south African court system is in favour of these men.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/oscarpistorius?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oscarpistorius<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShrienDewani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShrienDewani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C\u2764nnieKes (@conniekay21) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/conniekay21\/status\/541911159742685185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Quite simply, the State did not do enough to prove a case against <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShrienDewani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShrienDewani<\/a>. No evidence, no conviction. That&#39;s the law people.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mandy Wiener (@MandyWiener) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MandyWiener\/status\/541906931020226560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the BBC panorama doc on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShrienDewani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShrienDewani<\/a> it was clear there were serious issues with lack of evidence. It should never have gone to trial!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Cheney (@AlexC93) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexC93\/status\/541911088972185600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Watch the handing down of the dismissal\u00a0in the video below:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5BiGH7MxXvM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='00570c78f3d7277184b5f86dc919fce5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case against British businessman Shrien Dewani has been dismissed, following criticism of evidence by Judge Jeanette Traverso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":75451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5921,1563,5922],"class_list":["post-75439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dewani","tag-murder","tag-shrien-dewani"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["dewani","murder","shrien dewani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}