{"id":156089,"date":"2017-02-08T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=156089"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:44:37","slug":"possible-mass-uprising-against-zuma-spurred-army-call-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/156089\/possible-mass-uprising-against-zuma-spurred-army-call-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible &#8220;mass uprising&#8221; against Zuma spurred SONA army call: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence operatives have reportedly received an early warning of a massive uprising targeting President Jacob Zuma\u2019s State of the Nation Address, involving several disgruntled groups which have joined forces to disrupt the event and destabilise the area, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/fears-of-massive-uprising-behind-zumas-army-deployment-20170208\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to News24&#8217;s &#8220;well-placed&#8221; sources, the reported mass uprising was why President Jacob Zuma had authorised the posting of\u00a0441 soldiers to assist police during the Sona proceedings, amid fears that the police alone would not be able to manage a potentially violent disruption on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to these sources, the deployment of soldiers could then be used by groups opposed to Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any violence involving the soldiers breaks out, imagine how bad it will look for the country. This plan to clamp down could backfire,\u201d\u00a0a source said.<\/p>\n<p>This contrasts with earlier statements made by\u00a0secretary to Parliament Gengezi Mgidlana who insisted the SANDF forces would only perform traditional functions.<\/p>\n<p>This would include acting as door openers, guards of honour, military band, flag bearers, ceremonial motorcycle escort, and the gun salute.<\/p>\n<p>The president had to employ the SANDF members as they [SANDF] had no jurisdiction, said Mgidlana .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t do that, then they can\u2019t participate in the SONA. I don\u2019t know where this misinformation is coming from, but it is important to note that the president has to deploy the military after a request from the minister\u2019s office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mgidlana was also quick to quell fears that the number of deployed SANDF members was excessive this year, saying SONA was a big event, but the soldiers were merely there to perform duties outside of law and order.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/156023\/400-soldiers-will-just-open-doors-hold-flags-and-play-in-a-band-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\">400 soldiers will just open doors, hold flags and play in a band: Parliament<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence operatives have received an early warning of a massive uprising targeting President Jacob Zuma\u2019s State of the Nation Address involving several disgruntled groups which have joined forces to disrupt the event and destabilise the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":150585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,3428],"class_list":["post-156089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-news24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156089","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156089"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156115,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156089\/revisions\/156115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}