{"id":100491,"date":"2019-08-20T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=100491"},"modified":"2019-08-21T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:57:46","slug":"court-chaos-albino-murder-trial-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/20\/court-chaos-albino-murder-trial-unfolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Court in chaos as albino murder trial unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder accused, Thokozani Msibi (traditional healer), Brilliant Mkhize, Themba Thobela and Knowledge Mhlanga appeared in front of the High Court yesterday, on charges of murder, following the kidnapping and brutal killing of the two young children, last year in eMalahleni.<\/p>\n

Also read:<\/strong>\u00a0Mayors march against the killing of people with Albinism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Protesters have banded together in the court halls since yesterday, following a march led by the Executive Mayors of Steve Tshwete and eMalahleni, in a bid to stand against the killing of people with albinism, for traditional medicines.<\/p>\n

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Thokozani Msibi, Themba Thobela, Brilliant Mkhize,and Knowledge Mhlanga allegedly kidnapped and killed Gabisile Shabani.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The political march resulted in partial closure of Walter Sisulu Street, when marchers were led from the municipal buildings to the court.
\nDR Beyers Naude Drive is still experiencing disturbances in traffic, as the hearing continues.<\/p>\n

The case has been separated, following the admittance of guilt by Themba Thobela, who will be reappearing today.<\/p>\n

The remaining three accused, are expected to appear in court on 25 May 2020.<\/p>\n

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The murder trial of thirteen year-old Gabisile Shabani and her one year-old cousin, Nkosikhona Ngwenya, has seen the Middelburg High Court shrouded in protesters showing support to the young victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":100436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20081,20058,10010,7540,1977,12898,20059,10333],"class_list":["post-100491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-albino-murder-trial-unfolds","tag-gabisile-shabani","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-high-court","tag-middelburg-magistrates-court","tag-middelburg-news","tag-nkosikhona-ngwenya","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["albino murder trial unfolds","Gabisile Shabani","local news","Middelburg High Court","Middelburg Magistrate's Court","middelburg news","Nkosikhona Ngwenya","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}