{"id":118347,"date":"2016-04-14T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118347\/murderer-to-spend-13-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:30:02","slug":"murderer-to-spend-13-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/14\/murderer-to-spend-13-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderer to spend 13 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose SAPS station commander, Lieut-Col Albertina Vesi, has commended Det-Const Mpho Makhubela for her hard work, following the conviction of Ditaba Matjikitja (39).<\/p>\n<p>Matjikitja was recently found guilty of murder in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe murder took place in the Delport informal settlement, in March of this year,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMakhubela was credited with preparing the docket.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Matjikitja was sentenced to 13 years direct imprisonment and was declared unfit to possess a firearm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/117859\/new-boss-for-new-cluster\/\" target=\"_blank\">New boss for new cluster<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/109528\/primrose-police-welcome-new-commander\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primrose police welcome new commander<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116251\/ready-to-serve-the-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ready to serve the community<\/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='412834b7fa97d64f11d319c49df0e967'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditaba Matjikitja (39) is set to spend 13 years in prison after being convicted of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":118348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-118347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","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":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","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\/118347","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=118347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}