{"id":23528,"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/23528\/big-fish-in-icu-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:53:16","slug":"big-fish-in-icu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/09\/big-fish-in-icu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Fish&#8217; in ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Makhabane was driving alone when his car collided with another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>In the other vehicle was a couple, the woman sustained serious injuries and was admitted at the Middelburg Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Makhabane sustained serious head injuries and was in a coma for a week at the Life Midmed Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cause of the accident is suspected to have been the rainy weather, &#8221; said Captain Khanyisile Zwane of SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>According to Helanie Nel of Life Midmed Hospital the singer is still recovering in ICU.<\/p>\n<p>The singer also known as &#8220;Big Fish&#8221; is well known as a man of God and a lot of fans are touched by the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National gospel artist, Sipho Makhabane(50), was involved in a horrific car accident near the Alzu petrol station on the 28th of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":23529,"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-23528","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\/23528","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=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}