{"id":95529,"date":"2015-08-11T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=95529"},"modified":"2015-08-11T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:57:34","slug":"alarming-number-of-south-africans-bribe-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/95529\/alarming-number-of-south-africans-bribe-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming number of South Africans bribe the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll conducted by BusinessTech finds that an alarming number of South Africans have bribed\u00a0 a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned: Have you ever bribed a police officer? Respondents answered:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>No (71%, 700 Votes)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Yes (29%, 286 Votes)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a 2015 anti-bribery and corruption survey conducted by law firm ENSafrica, incidents of bribery have increased in Africa, with South Africa, Nigeria and six other countries cited as \u201ccorruption hot spots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage emerged in SA, showing Greg Esterhuysen rejecting an attempted bribe solicitation by a JMPD officer on Christmas day 2014, which led to his subsequent arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage, captured by Esterhuysen, and posted on YouTube, went viral in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JMPD Officer asks for a bribe, Johannesburg, South Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgRy5DfWeSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on bribery in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/95005\/what-you-should-do-when-a-police-officer-wants-a-bribe\/\">What you should do when a police officer wants a bribe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/93833\/sa-corruption-almost-out-of-control\/\">SA corruption \u201calmost out of control\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/90676\/why-do-we-fight-corruption\/\"><strong>Why do we fight corruption?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll conducted by BusinessTech finds that an alarming number of South Africans have bribed a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,8179],"class_list":["post-95529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-jmpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95529","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=95529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95531,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95529\/revisions\/95531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}