{"id":36550,"date":"2023-02-15T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=36550"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:44:12","slug":"opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=36550","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: Illicit and counterfeit trade fuels organised crime and is a growing threat to SA\u2019s economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem has become so pervasive that it is now estimated more than R100-billion is being lost annually to illicit trade in South Africa. We have an entire parallel economy that has established itself in a wide range of illicit and counterfeit products&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2022-12-11-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem has become so pervasive that it is now estimated more than R100-billion is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery.jpg",1000,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery.jpg",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery.jpg",1000,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery.jpg",1000,1000,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery.jpg",1000,1000,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36550-opinionista-illicit-and-counterfeit-trade-fuels-organised-crime-and-is-a-growing-threat-to-sas-economic-recovery-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"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\/36550","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=36550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}