{"id":137948,"date":"2026-03-17T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/137948\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:02:07","slug":"former-mamelodi-sundowns-coach-rhulani-mokwena-sentenced-in-algeria-after-found-guilty-of-breaking-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/137948\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena sentenced in Algeria after found guilty of breaking the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mokwena&#8217;s case was heard at the Dar El Beida Court, where he received a suspended prison sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMokwena was detained after being found with 15 000 US Dollars in cash. In Algeria, you can\u2019t travel with more than $7 500 \u2026 But what I know is that he\u2019s now been released and is waiting to depart for Libya via Turkey,\u201d respected Algerian journalist Nazim Bessol confirmed, as told by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiskitimes.co.za\/sa-stars-abroad\/latest-rulani-update-from-algeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iDiski Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have just received an update from the court that Mokwena was prosecuted and has been fined and also handed a two-month suspended sentence after being found with 14 200 euros (=$15 000).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was prosecuted for attempting to take foreign currency out of the country,&#8221; Bessol concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mokwena&#8217;s case was heard at the Dar El Beida Court, where he received a suspended prison sentence.\u00a0 \u201cMokwena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[390,4930,64225,74005,49445,41244,74009,131,48639,74605,74008],"class_list":{"0":"post-137948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-algeria","8":"tag-algeria","9":"tag-kaizer-chiefs","10":"tag-mamelodi-sundowns-fc","11":"tag-marumo-gallants","12":"tag-mc-alger","13":"tag-orlando-pirates","14":"tag-r-mokwena","15":"tag-south-africa","16":"tag-stade-malien","17":"tag-t-lorch","18":"tag-usm-khenchela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116243709504348762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}