{"id":76995,"date":"2014-12-18T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=76995"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T07:54:01","slug":"campaign-aimed-squashing-market-stolen-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/18\/campaign-aimed-squashing-market-stolen-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign aimed at squashing market for stolen goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police minister Nathi Nhleko has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the growing market for stolen goods in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which was launched in Mpumalanga on Wednesday, aims to discourage communities from encouraging these types of crimes by buying the stolen goods.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Nhleko called on South Africans to strive to create a &#8220;decent society&#8221; and committed himself to assisting the youth and unemployed people to be productive instead of turning to crime.<\/p>\n<p>The minister went on to say his department has already identified problem areas.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do some work in terms of what else needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>It is everybody\u2019s responsibility,\u201d Nhleko concluded.<\/p>\n<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='f7384bb301fac0f600230fa9eb5ec557'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Minister Nathi Nhleko called on South Africans to strive to create a decent society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":76997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-76995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76995","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}