{"id":110588,"date":"2020-02-24T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110588"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:45:02","slug":"sam-mshengu-chabalalas-case-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/24\/sam-mshengu-chabalalas-case-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam &#8216;Mshengu&#8217; Chabalala&#8217;s  case postponed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chabalala will appear before the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chabalala was arrested and charged with corruption and bribery after he allegedly attempted to bribe a senior police official to release his luxury vehicle and make a docket related to his other case disappear.<\/p>\n<p>He was nabbed in eMalahleni last September where he also faced, among others, a corruption charge.<\/p>\n<p>The flamboyant businessman came into national prominence in July 2019 when he took a convoy of 72 cars to the Durban July horse-racing event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case against well-known businessman, Sam \u2018Mshengu\u2019 Chabalala, has been postponed again for a for bail decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,12898,23525,23524,23527,23526,23523,10333],"class_list":["post-110588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-sam-chabalala-arrest","tag-sam-chabalala-bail-hearing-postponed","tag-sam-chabalala-faces-charges-of-corruption","tag-sam-holdings-millionaire-bail-application","tag-sam-mshengu-chabalala","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","sam chabalala arrest","sam chabalala bail hearing postponed","sam chabalala faces charges of corruption","sam holdings millionaire bail application","sam mshengu chabalala","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110588","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=110588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}