{"id":16265,"date":"2018-03-02T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2018-03-04T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T15:44:58","slug":"south-africa-home-affairs-again-defends-gigaba-over-guptas-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-home-affairs-again-defends-gigaba-over-guptas-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Home Affairs again defends Gigaba over Guptas&#8217; citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The Department of Home Affairs has had to put out old fires, again defending Malusi Gigaba for fast-tracking the Guptas&#8217; citizenship application.<\/p>\n<p>Gigaba returns to the department after he was moved from the finance portfolio during the cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/was-the-guptas-naturalisation-legal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The minister came under fire in 2017<\/a>, when it emerged he personally intervened to help the Guptas with their naturalisation certificates in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/nothing-wrong-in-gigaba-giving-guptas-citizenship-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/nothing-wrong-in-gigaba-giving-guptas-citizenship-department<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The Department of Home Affairs has had to put out old fires, again defending Malusi Gigaba for fast-tracking the Guptas&#8217; citizenship application. Gigaba returns to the department after he was moved from the finance portfolio during the cabinet reshuffle. The minister came under fire in 2017, when it emerged he personally intervened to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16266,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions\/16266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}