{"id":19083,"date":"2014-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/19083\/graveyard-suspects-not-in-court\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:59:05","slug":"graveyard-suspects-not-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/01\/graveyard-suspects-not-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Graveyard suspects not in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18817\/the-graveyard-boys\/\">The two boys who were initially charged with violation of graves might be out there violating more graves.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lindiwe Mahlangu and Maxwell Sithole were in court on Monday to follow up on the case but there was no case to follow up.<\/p>\n<p>The two community leaders enquired at the police and they did not have clear answers as to why the boys were not in court.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the case is still &#8220;under investigation&#8221; and that they must wait 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Observer also phoned the Middelburg court with the case number but there was no record in court of the graveyard accused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The docket was taken for decision,&#8221; said Captain Khanyisile Zwane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;graveyard boys&#8221; who allegedly stole metal plates from the Tokologo Cemetery last week did not appear in court and are scott-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":19128,"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-19083","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\/19083","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=19083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}