{"id":967571,"date":"2024-05-30T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967571"},"modified":"2024-05-30T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:13:03","slug":"western-cape-police-chief-says-one-arrest-in-election-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/western-cape-police-chief-says-one-arrest-in-election-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Cape police chief says one arrest in election fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Western Cape Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile says one person has been arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged voter fraud<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The province has not had any serious voting-related incidents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patekile says as far as arrests, we arrested one person, that is election-related.\u00a0 The person allegedly voted twice in the City of Cape Town, the investigation will continue on how he voted twice but he is now in custody.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Furthermore, Patekile says elections in the province have been peaceful and without serious incidents.\u00a0 Forty-nine hotspot polling stations were identified in the province.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He says despite the hotspots, safety and security were always maintained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany things we looked at, civil intolerance, politics, general crimes, we looked where deployed more members that is what we achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Western Cape Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile says one person has been arrested for alleged voter fraud. The province has not had any serious voting-related incidents. Patekile says as far as arrests, we arrested one person, that is election-related.\u00a0 The person allegedly voted twice in the City of Cape Town, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":967572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,982,2895],"class_list":["post-967571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-city-of-cape-town","tag-western-cape-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}