{"id":111740,"date":"2020-03-05T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=111740"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:04:30","slug":"not-sensitive-viewers-assault-resulting-alleged-murder-filmed-four-mhluzi-youths-accused-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/05\/not-sensitive-viewers-assault-resulting-alleged-murder-filmed-four-mhluzi-youths-accused-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS: Assault resulting in alleged murder filmed by four Mhluzi youths accused of the crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of the man was found on Sunday, February 23.<\/p>\n<p>The youths filmed the vicious assault after seeing the victim in the street, from a tavern where they were smoking a hookah pipe.<\/p>\n<p>The relentless assault came on the back of a fight the previous year, between the victim and one of the accused, the deceased\u2019s family said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Read the full story in this week\u2019s edition of the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/csySfGP9lS8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Mhluzi youths appeared in the Middelburg Magistrates Court on Wednesday for allegedly murdering an upcoming 24-year-old township businessman, by beating him to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":59364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23670,23667,10010,12898,10333,23669,23668,23671],"class_list":["post-111740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accused-in-court-after-recording-murder","tag-four-youths-face-charges-of-murder-after-recording-fight","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-video-of-murder","tag-video-of-murder-surfaced","tag-youths-charged-with-murder-after-video-surfaces"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accused in court after recording murder","four youths face charges of murder after recording fight","local news","middelburg news","trusted news","video of murder","video of murder surfaced","youths charged with murder after video surfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740","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=111740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}