{"id":225657,"date":"2026-05-13T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225657"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:54:42","slug":"gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225657","title":{"rendered":"Gangland Extortion | Pay or die | An Annika Larsen Special Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gangland Extortion, Pay or Die is an Annika Larsen Special Report exploring the growing link between extortion rackets and a wave of deadly mass shootings. Asking the question \u201cHow did extortion become powerful enough to fuel this level of violence?\u201d the film examines South Africa\u2019s vast informal economy &#8211; valued in the trillions of rand<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-annika-larsen-special-report\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangland Extortion, Pay or Die is an Annika Larsen Special Report exploring the growing link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report-300x158.webp",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225657-gangland-extortion-pay-or-die-an-annika-larsen-special-report.webp",480,252,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}