{"id":111956,"date":"2020-03-07T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=111956"},"modified":"2020-03-07T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:17:22","slug":"warrant-issued-sam-holdings-millionaire-no-show-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/07\/warrant-issued-sam-holdings-millionaire-no-show-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrant issued for Sam Holdings millionaire after no show at court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This after he failed to appear in court on charges of fraud, corruption and the possession of an illegal firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Chabalala was first arrested in September 2019 in eMalahleni on the charges mentioned above. He was granted R200 000 bail a week after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was re-arrested in Middelburg earlier this year after he allegedly tried to bribe a police officer to get his car out of the police pound and to stop the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy bail hearing, Chabalala was granted bail of R500 000 in the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s court.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows his whereabouts, they are requested to contact the investigating officer, Capt. Meyer on 071 481 2977 or Lt. Col Danie Hall on 071 481 3281.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are looking for Sam \u2018Mshengu\u2019 Chabalala after the Witbank Magistrate\u2019s Court issued a warrant for his arrest yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":109791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff and Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7783,5947,3798,4139,21966,23690,23693,23344,23523,23694,7765,23689,23691,23692],"class_list":["post-111956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bribery","tag-corruption","tag-fraud","tag-hawks","tag-middelburg","tag-on-the-run","tag-sam-chablala","tag-sam-holdings","tag-sam-mshengu-chabalala","tag-sam-tshabalala","tag-wanted","tag-wanted-millionaire","tag-who-is-sam-holdings","tag-who-is-sam-shabalala"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bribery","corruption","fraud","HAWKS","middelburg","on the run","sam chablala","Sam Holdings","sam mshengu chabalala","sam tshabalala","wanted","wanted millionaire","who is sam holdings","who is sam shabalala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111956","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111956\/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=111956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}