{"id":21269,"date":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=7475dbd54081a4f2842106f8b9bc35ca"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","slug":"ep-149-south-african-presidents-cruel-side-hustle-big-game-trophy-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/09\/ep-149-south-african-presidents-cruel-side-hustle-big-game-trophy-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep.149: South African President&#8217;s Cruel Side-hustle: Big Game Trophy Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PETA investigation has exposed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a big game breeding and safari hunting operation. The company managers have revealed how it works on video. Ramaphosa denies wrong-doing. Despite Covid-19, customers from around the world and the U.S. pay thousands of dollars to go trophy hunting in South Africa. Ramaphosa runs both a breeding operation and a safari company. The managers of the operation say Ramaphosa has as much as a 50 percent ownership in profits. Hannah Schein, PETA's Sr. Director of Investigations talks with Emil Guillermo on how the business works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/petapodcast\/pp149SAPresidentsCruelSideHlustleFULLEPfx.mp3\">THE PETA PODCAST<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PETA investigation has exposed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a big game breeding and safari hunting operation. The company managers have revealed how it works on video. Ramaphosa denies wrong-doing. Despite Covid-19, customers from aroun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21270,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions\/21270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}