{"id":82933,"date":"2015-03-19T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=82933"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:26:35","slug":"vodacom-shop-fleeced-for-r1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/82933\/vodacom-shop-fleeced-for-r1-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom shop fleeced for R1.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphones worth R1.5 million were stolen from the Vodacom store in the Hyde Park mall, Johannesburg, on Thursday, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n<p>Four armed men entered the store around 2.30pm and held staff at gunpoint, Lieutenant Kay Makhubela said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They took cellphones worth R1.5 million and then on their way out of the store they started shooting randomly, but no one was injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said a woman was treated for shock.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on crime in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Shocking crime levels in Gauteng\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/65820\/shocking-crime-levels-in-gauteng\/\"><strong>Shocking crime levels in Gauteng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The cost of cyber-crime in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/60021\/the-cost-of-cyber-crime-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>The cost of cyber-crime in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"R1 million stolen in SA iStore robbery\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/66536\/r1-million-stolen-in-sa-istore-robbery\/\"><strong>R1 million stolen in SA iStore robbery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cellphone store robberies continue\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/68925\/cellphone-store-robberies-continue\/\"><strong>Cellphone store robberies continue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphones worth R1.5 million were stolen from the Vodacom store in the Hyde Park mall, Johannesburg, on Thursday, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,8798,27],"class_list":["post-82933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-robbery","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82933","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82935,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82933\/revisions\/82935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}