{"id":49193,"date":"2026-07-14T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49193"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:03:00","slug":"itweb-investigation-makate-says-black-rock-was-elsdons-alter-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/itweb-investigation-makate-says-black-rock-was-elsdons-alter-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>ITWeb investigation: Makate says Black Rock was Elsdon&#8217;s \u2018alter ego\u2019<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A deep dive into the funding saga behind the Please Call Me settlement \u2013 starting with Nkosana Makate\u2019s claim that Black Rock Mining was a facade for businessman Errol Elsdon.<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/static\/pictures\/2026\/07\/Please-Call-Me-Jul-2026.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep dive into the funding saga behind the Please Call Me settlement \u2013 starting with Nkosana Makate\u2019s claim that Black Rock Mining was a facade for businessman Errol Elsdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}