{"id":410658,"date":"2022-02-04T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410658"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:35:54","slug":"south-african-court-denies-bail-to-accused-in-parliament-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/south-african-court-denies-bail-to-accused-in-parliament-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"South African court denies bail to accused in parliament fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-body__side-rail___19io4-\">\n<div class=\"registration-prompt__container___bYuCJ7 column article-body__aside-registration-prompt___1Ealxw\">\n<div class=\"registration-prompt__text-content___3mCDaQ\">\n<div class=\"Button__container___3WEvvw\">(Reuters) &#8211; A South African court on Friday denied bail to a man charged with crimes including arson over a devastating fire at the national parliament in Cape Town in January, local media reported. Zandile Mafe denied the charges against him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__content___ROHHzW paywall-article\">\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Officials have described the fire, which severely damaged parts of the parliament precinct, as an attack on South African democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">The legislature has played a crucial role in helping roll back repressive apartheid-era policies over the past three decades, and parts of the parliament complex date to the 1880s when South Africa was under British colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Mafe &#8220;did not satisfy the court that exceptional circumstances exist which in the interests of justice permit his release&#8221;, the court in Cape Town ruled, according to a video posted by a Times LIVE reporter on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Another news website, Eyewitness News, reported that Mafe would appeal Friday&#8217;s judgment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A South African court on Friday denied bail to a man charged with crimes including arson over a devastating fire at the national parliament in Cape Town in January, local media reported. Zandile Mafe denied the charges against him. Officials have described the fire, which severely damaged parts of the parliament precinct, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410660,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410658\/revisions\/410660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}