{"id":166547,"date":"2017-03-28T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=166547"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:35:13","slug":"fears-of-sa-terror-attack-after-massive-weapon-cache-found-in-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/166547\/fears-of-sa-terror-attack-after-massive-weapon-cache-found-in-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of SA terror attack after massive weapon cache found in Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large weapons cache\u00a0recently discovered in a Randburg has sparked fears of possible terrorist attacks in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons were discovered by contractors in a dilapidated building basement in the residential suburb of Ferndale. Noting a suspicious bag, the workers contacted local police who confirmed that\u00a0bag\u00a0included 60 mortar bombs, seven rifles (AK47s and R5s), 12 revolvers and several pistols.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to several unnamed items, police spokesperson\u00a0Mavela Masondo confirmed that the cache also contained numerous homemade weapons, and that the firearms had their serial numbers had been filed off.<\/p>\n<p>While Masondo indicated that the bombs were likely\u00a0used to commit crime, he noted that\u00a0police couldn&#8217;t rule out a terrorism link,\u00a0confirming that there was\u00a0one suicide bomb vest contained in the cache.<\/p>\n<p>You<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/randburgsun.co.za\/318624\/breaking-no-bomb-randburg-square\/\"> can see images of the cache here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/155383\/isis-attack-in-south-africa-just-a-matter-of-time-analysts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>believe <\/strong><\/a>that an ISIS attack within South African borders is just a matter of time, following raised tensions caused by Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0anti-Islamic sentiments and an increasing number of known terrorists trying to enter the country over the past 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Security Studies (ISS) counter-terrorism researcher Martin Ewi said that the group was trying to determine exactly what business interests Trump has in South Africa, which could possibly be seen as a target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s very hard-line approach was good for Isis to justify its\u00a0activity. What this means is that some of the reports (that we get) say (Isis) will go for Trump\u2019s investments in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of whether it materialises today or tomorrow,\u201d Ewi said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/155383\/isis-attack-in-south-africa-just-a-matter-of-time-analysts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS attack in South Africa \u201cjust a matter of time\u201d analysts warn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large weapons cache recently discovered in a Randburg has sparked fears of possible terrorist attacks in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":151619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-166547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547","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=166547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166559,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547\/revisions\/166559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}