{"id":137551,"date":"2016-09-21T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=137551"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:27:11","slug":"we-are-going-to-beat-you-up-fees-must-fall-protesters-threaten-students-over-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/137551\/we-are-going-to-beat-you-up-fees-must-fall-protesters-threaten-students-over-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are going to beat you up&#8221;: Fee protesters threaten students over WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WhatsApp message, sent to a University of Pretoria Engineering group, threatens violence against students who are &#8220;learning&#8221; while protests are taking place.<\/p>\n<p>According to an engineering student at the University of Pretoria, the threatening WhatsApp message was sent to the group by a protesting student.<\/p>\n<p>The message states that \u201cAnyone who goes to classes, you are going to k*k, we are going to beat you up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe can\u2019t be striking while you are in class learning. We are doing this for everyone \u2013 so stay away from class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/283906688&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on universities<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Fees Must Fall 2016 protests hit boiling point in Joburg\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/137331\/fees-must-fall-2016-protests-hit-boiling-point-in-joburg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fees Must Fall 2016 protests hit boiling point in Joburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Students arrested in Wits protest\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/137315\/10-students-arrested-in-wits-protest\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Students arrested in Wits protest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WhatsApp message, sent to a University of Pretoria Engineering group, threatens violence against students who are &#8220;learning&#8221; while protests are taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":137553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-137551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137557,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551\/revisions\/137557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}