{"id":1469,"date":"2019-07-23T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2019\/07\/23\/mec-nontobeka-vilakazi-local-mayor-meets-with-the-family-of-vanessa-barends-33-in-prieska\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:26:45","slug":"mec-nontobeka-vilakazi-local-mayor-meets-with-the-family-of-vanessa-barends-33-in-prieska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2019\/07\/23\/mec-nontobeka-vilakazi-local-mayor-meets-with-the-family-of-vanessa-barends-33-in-prieska\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC Nontobeka Vilakazi &#038; Local Mayor meets with the Family of Vanessa Barends (33) in Prieska."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1468\" alt=\"65731594 2189235557991801 8529124662611804160 o1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/07\/65731594_2189235557991801_8529124662611804160_o1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #1c1e21; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: transparent;\">MEC Nontobeka Vilakazi &amp; Local Mayor meets with the Family of Vanessa Barends (33) in Prieska.<\/span><br style=\"margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: #1c1e21; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent;\" \/><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #1c1e21; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: transparent;\"> Vanessa was found brutally attacked and raped &#8211; she later died of her injuries at the local Hospital.<\/span><br style=\"margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: #1c1e21; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent;\" \/><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #1c1e21; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: transparent;\"> MEC wants the community and Police to work together so that crimes of this nature do not find a footprint in our communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEC Nontobeka Vilakazi &amp; Local Mayor meets with the Family of Vanessa Barends (33) in Prieska. Vanessa was found brutally attacked and raped &#8211; she later died of her injuries at the local Hospital. MEC wants the community and Police to work together so that crimes of this nature do not find a footprint in<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2019\/07\/23\/mec-nontobeka-vilakazi-local-mayor-meets-with-the-family-of-vanessa-barends-33-in-prieska\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}