{"id":108834,"date":"2020-01-29T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=108834"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:23:10","slug":"abrams-brothers-apply-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/01\/29\/abrams-brothers-apply-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams brothers apply for bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Knoesen, Riana Heymans and brothers Eric and Errol Abrams were arrested in November 2019 on charges relating to the terrorism act.<\/p>\n<p>Knoesen\u2019s legal representative, Mr Mafatsa, told the court that they are not ready to proceed with bail and asked for a postponement. Heymans indicated during a previous court proceeding that she will not be applying for bail at this stage and thus was not present in court today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/108803\/harry-knoesen-abram-brothers-appear-court-bail-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Knoesen and Abram brothers appear in court for bail applications<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Abram brothers proceeded with their bail application, handled by adv. BC Bester. Specialist prosecutor adv. RC Macadam acted on behalf of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Adv. Bester read two affidavits, one from each of his clients, into the record whilst the state handed in affidavits by the investigating officer as well as a police officer who was present during the Abrams\u2019 arrest, as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Both councils have handed in heads of argument and addressed the court. The matter is standing down for the moment with judgement expected later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bail hearing of two of four people accused of terrorism is currently underway in the Middelburg Magistrate\u2019s Court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":108835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23015,23018,23019,23017,23016,16972,22997,10010,12898,10333],"class_list":["post-108834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-abram-brothers","tag-abram-brothers-aplly-for-bail","tag-abram-brothers-bail-application","tag-abram-brothers-court-appearance","tag-abram-brothers-face-charges-of-terrorism","tag-harry-knoesen","tag-harry-knoesen-terrorism-case","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["abram brothers","abram brothers aplly for bail","abram brothers bail application","abram brothers court appearance","abram brothers face charges of terrorism","Harry Knoesen","harry knoesen terrorism case","local news","middelburg news","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108834","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=108834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}