{"id":115777,"date":"2016-03-16T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115777\/police-mourn-fallen-comrade\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T06:49:19","slug":"police-mourn-fallen-comrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/16\/police-mourn-fallen-comrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Police mourn fallen comrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the police and community of Primrose are mourning the death of WO Herman Thape, who passed away recently, at the age of 54, after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife and five sons.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Born on March 21, Thape started his career at the Etwatwa Police Station in 1989, where he completed his field training.<\/p>\n<p>He later moved to Primrose for a short time, before being dispatched to the Benoni SAPS Vehicle Theft Unit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He returned to Primrose, where he was based in the Sap6 store (document filing).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community and his colleagues will miss Thape and we convey our condolences to the family,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>Thape was laid to rest in the Crystal Park Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115632\/local-community-stalwart-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community to bid farewell to Jane<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='983d66b7934ebcd240a03639ac0b511c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police mourn the passing of WO Herman Thape, who died at the age of 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":103020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-115777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}