{"id":101358,"date":"2019-09-04T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=101358"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:38:01","slug":"sa-teams-withdraw-international-7s-rugby-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/04\/sa-teams-withdraw-international-7s-rugby-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"SA teams withdraw from International 7&#8217;s rugby Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was released in a statement that both the JHB Bobbies and the Blue Bulls 7&#8217;s rugby teams, pulled out from an International tournament being held in Zambia, at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Roos, one of the Bulls players, stated on social media that the team had already boarded their plane to Lusaka, when the union pulled them back after receiving threats of violence from the public in Zambia, upon their arrival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/101348\/rugbytoer-gekanselleer-na-vrese-van-geweld\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rugbytoer gekanselleer na vrese van geweld<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement further read that the Tournament organizers had announced their support towards the public in standing against the xenophobic attacks taking place in South Africa, and that the two rugby teams have decided to withdraw from the tournament, out of respect for Zambian sentiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in Johannesburg has caused turbulence in trans-African relations, resulting in two South African rugby teams withdrawing from an upcoming tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":95335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20504,20505,10010,12898,12964,12714,20506,3,10333,20477,20503],"class_list":["post-101358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-international-sevens-rugby","tag-international-sevens-tournament","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-sport","tag-sa-rugby","tag-sa-teams-withdraw-from-sevens-tournament-in-zambia","tag-sports-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-xenophobic-attacks","tag-zambian-international-7s-rugby-tournament"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["international sevens rugby","international sevens tournament","local news","middelburg news","Middelburg sport","SA rugby","SA teams withdraw from sevens tournament in Zambia","Sport","trusted news","xenophobic attacks","Zambian International 7's rugby tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}