{"id":97851,"date":"2015-09-08T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=97851"},"modified":"2015-09-08T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:58:12","slug":"sa-terror-alert-amid-specific-credible-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/97851\/sa-terror-alert-amid-specific-credible-information\/","title":{"rendered":"SA terror alert amid specific, credible information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy\u2019s warning of possible terror attacks in South Africa was triggered by &#8220;specific, credible&#8221; information, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US Diplomatic Mission to South Africa on Tuesday warned US citizens that extremists may be targeting that country\u2019s government facilities and business interests in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The US had received &#8220;specific, credible, non-counterable threat information&#8221; in this regard, Cynthia Harvey said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She could not disclose more about who the threat came from or what the likely targets were.<\/p>\n<p>Such security warnings were not a reflection on bilateral relations with other countries, Harvey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are part of our commitment to protect US citizens travelling and residing abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state security ministry could not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Terror-threat-in-SA-specific-credible-US-Embassy-20150908\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on terror<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/73840\/terrorism-in-south-africa\/\">Terrorism on the rise in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/88640\/global-terrorist-hotspots-mapped\/\">Global terrorist hotspots mapped<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/78253\/worlds-most-violent-cities-sa-getting-worse\/\">World\u2019s most violent cities: SA getting worse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy\u2019s warning of possible terror attacks in South Africa was triggered by &#8220;specific, credible&#8221; information, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":9002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-97851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97851","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97853,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97851\/revisions\/97853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}