{"id":17287,"date":"2014-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/17287\/dertig-open-again\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:57:13","slug":"dertig-open-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/30\/dertig-open-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dertig open again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr King Tholo, owner of the popular tavern, was unhappy because he was forced to close his business&#8217; doors after a murder last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tholo said that a man entered their premises whilst they were busy cleaning and died shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Dertig Tavern was closed down after allegations that the man died in a fight that started and ended inside the tavern. This was not the truth. Mr Tholo said that he was very unhappy with the initial police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tavern was closed for the night. The music was off and we were busy cleaning. The doors were closed but not locked. All of a sudden a man ran inside and collapsed. We called the police and ambulance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dertig Tavern is a good place to chill. We are not murdering people. Unfortunately you cannot control what happens outside the tavern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first person to ever die inside his tavern Mr Tholo said. He said that it was such a macabre incident and that he is convinced that it could happen anywhere to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tholo say that although the police did take down statements, the eyewitnesses who saw everything happen was never asked to give one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Since the inverview with Mr Tholo, he was approached by the police and the matter was resolved. &#8220;We are open for business again and very happy about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being closed for some time, Dertig Tavern had its name cleared and is open for business again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":17288,"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":[],"class_list":["post-17287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287","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=17287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}