{"id":14279,"date":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/14279\/assault-for-threatening-to-kill\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:08:30","slug":"assault-for-threatening-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/14\/assault-for-threatening-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault for ‘threatening’ to kill"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is alleged that Shongwe threatened to kill Cllr San-Mari Wait whilst they were at the Steve Tshwete Municipality in March this year.<\/p>\n

The Middelburg Observer reported about the heated Portfolio meeting that turned nasty when ANC Cllr Shongwe clashed with DA Cllr Wait. At that stage no one was formally charged.<\/p>\n

Shongwe was released on warning and will appear in court again at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

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Cllr San-Mari Wait accuses Petrus Shongwe of threatening to kill her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Councillor Petrus Mduduzi Shongwe (35) who resides in Extension 8 in Mhluzi, was formally charged and appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court on a charge of assault this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":14280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1978,1979,1980,1975,1976,1977,1195],"class_list":["post-14279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-assault","tag-cllr-san-mari-wait","tag-councillor-petrus-mduduzi-shongwe","tag-extension-8","tag-mhluzi","tag-middelburg-magistrates-court","tag-steve-tshwete-munisipaliteit"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["assault","Cllr San-Mari Wait","Councillor Petrus Mduduzi Shongwe","extension 8","Mhluzi","Middelburg Magistrate's Court","Steve Tshwete Munisipaliteit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}