{"id":72961,"date":"2014-11-08T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72961\/const-makhubela-secures-a-conviction\/"},"modified":"2014-11-08T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T06:39:33","slug":"const-makhubela-secures-a-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/08\/const-makhubela-secures-a-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Const Makhubela secures a conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The management of the Primrose Police Station recently congratulated Const Mpho Makhubela on a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>Makhubela was investigating a case of murder that happened on August 3, 2013, in the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A 27-year-old suspect was arrested for the crime and later appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>Kelvin Xaba was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, of which four years were suspended for five years, on condition that the accused is not again convicted of murder or culpable homicide during the period of suspension.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe station commander, Col Mduduzi Khuzwayo, and his management team thank Const Makhubela for his hard work,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is through hard work and dedication that we can secure convictions.\u201d<\/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='e6bcc34b201e1b05e9e4b9b6b9ab5b9d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Const Mpho Makhubela congratulated on a job well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72973,"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":[1041,8297,5488,2358,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,5489,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-72961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-const-mpho-makhubela","tag-conviction","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-imprisonment","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","Const Mpho Makhubela","conviction","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","imprisonment","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\/72961","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=72961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}