{"id":15754,"date":"2014-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/15754\/councillor-in-court\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:22:38","slug":"councillor-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/02\/councillor-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shongwe faces the charge after he allegedly threatened to kill DA Councillor San-Mari Wait.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting turn of events, Shongwe refused legal representation and insisted that he will conduct his own defense.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding Officer Marl\u00e9 Kotze noted that the accused is adamant to conduct his own defense.<\/p>\n<p>Shongwe was released on warning and will appear in court again in October.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15756\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/BJJUL119-_530501722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15756\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/BJJUL119-_530501722-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"San-Mari Wait claims that Shongwe threatened to kill her.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/BJJUL119-_530501722-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/BJJUL119-_530501722-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/BJJUL119-_530501722.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San-Mari Wait claims that Shongwe threatened to kill her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC Councillor Petrus Mduduzi Shongwe (35), from Extension 8 in Mhluzi, appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on a charge of assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":15755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754","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=15754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}