{"id":23808,"date":"2016-03-10T01:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rape-charges-against-nelson-mandela-grandson\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:31:09","slug":"rape-charges-against-nelson-mandela-grandson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rape-charges-against-nelson-mandela-grandson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape charges against Nelson Mandela grandson withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rape charges against Nelson Mandela&#8217;s grandson have been provisionally withdrawn by a South African court.}<\/p>\n<p>The National Prosecuting Authority told the BBC it withdrew the case against the 24-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, &#8220;pending further investigations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old alleged that he raped her in the toilets of a Johannesburg bar in 2015.<br \/>\nHe said the sex was consensual and he believed she was much older.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors now say &#8220;new information has come to light&#8221; and they need more time look into it.<\/p>\n<p>They may re-instate the charges at a later stage, reports the BBC&#8217;s Pumza Fihlani from South Africa&#8217;s main city, Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing in August, his lawyers disputed the age of his accuser, saying she was 16, the age of consent.<\/p>\n<p>Under South African law, sex with someone under 16 is classed as rape whether consensual or not.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela was South Africa&#8217;s first black president.<\/p>\n<p>He become an icon to many after spending 27 years in prison for his role in the fight against apartheid &#8211; white minority rule.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10867 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_85110622_85110621.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela&#039;s family have found themselves constantly in the public spotlight\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rape charges against Nelson Mandela&#8217;s grandson have been provisionally withdrawn by a South African court.} The National Prosecuting Authority told the BBC it withdrew the case against the 24-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, &#8220;pending further investigations&#8221;. A 15-year-old alleged that he raped her in the toilets of a Johannesburg bar in 2015. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}