{"id":29870,"date":"2015-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/29870\/man-charged-with-perjury\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T08:31:11","slug":"man-charged-with-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/07\/man-charged-with-perjury\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with perjury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bongani Foster Jiyane (25) opened a theft of a motor vehicle case at the Middelburg police after his vehicle was involved in an accident on 16 May.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement he said that he gave two women a lift on the day and later awoke at the train station in Meyer Street, dazed and confused.<\/p>\n<p>His car was towed from the scene with an employee of the tow-truck service stating that he saw Jiyane run away from the scene shortly after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Jiyane buckled after being questioned by the investigating officer, admitting that he lied about the events in order to claim from his insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court and was released on R500 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Middelburg resident was charged with perjury after he allegedly attempted to mislead police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":30028,"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-29870","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\/29870","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=29870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}