{"id":110870,"date":"2020-02-26T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110870"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:11:36","slug":"mshengu-gets-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/26\/mshengu-gets-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mshengu\u2019 gets bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chabalala made his court appearance 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>The case was remanded to March 13.<br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Citizen\u00a0<\/i>reported that it was revealed in court that the flamboyant businessman&#8217;s real name is Gilbert Tachuona and he was born in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Chabalala 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 Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court has granted Sam \u2018Mshengu\u2019 Chabalala R500 000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109791,"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":[23577,10010,12898,23574,23578,23576,23575,10333],"class_list":["post-110870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-gilbert-tachuona","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-sam-chabalala","tag-sam-holdings-millionaire-granted-bail","tag-sam-mshengu-chabalala-granted-bail","tag-sam-mshengu-chabalala-granted-r500-000-bail","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Gilbert Tachuona","local news","middelburg news","sam chabalala","sam holdings millionaire granted bail","sam mshengu chabalala granted bail","sam mshengu chabalala granted R500 000 bail","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110870","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=110870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}