{"id":21608,"date":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/21608\/floating-body-identified\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T08:37:32","slug":"floating-body-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/14\/floating-body-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Floating body identified."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deceased is Mr Jabu Ngwenya (37) from Mhluzi Extension 1. He was laid to rest last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/20680\/body-in-river\/\">Mr Ngwenya still had his cellphone and some money in his pocket when the body was found which ruled out foul play.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although his cause of death has been ruled as drowning, the bottle was sent to a laboratory for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ngwenya family knew he had problems with his child and lover, but it still came as a shock when the family first saw a photo of his body in the Observer.<\/p>\n<p>They are happy for the closure and would like to thank the public who supported them through their agony.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20681\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/20141026_14541_547007821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20681\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/20141026_14541_547007821-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"The body found floating at the Reabota Bridge on Sunday afafternoon.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/20141026_14541_547007821-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/20141026_14541_547007821-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/20141026_14541_547007821.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The body found floating at the Reabota Bridge on Sunday afafternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man whose body was found floating in the Klein Olifants River could have committed suicide,as a bottle suspected to be poison was found next to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":21609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21608","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\/21608","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=21608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}