{"id":31522,"date":"2015-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/31522\/teenagers-kidnapped\/"},"modified":"2015-07-14T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:44:42","slug":"teenagers-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/14\/teenagers-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver lost control and the teenagers and alleged kidnappers were injured when the Jeep overturned.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were arrested on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The three kidnappers Mluleki Ngube (34), Andile Nyathi and Senzo Lehgwati (37) appeared in court on charges of reckless and negligence driving, kidnapping and pointing of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are out on R1000 bail and are expected to appear in court on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of one of the teenagers declined to comment but confirmed that her son was injured in the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three man forced three seventeen year old&#8217;s at gunpoint into a silver Jeep Cherokee outside a tavern near Mapimpane in Doornkop, the suspects then recklessly drove away with the teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":31523,"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-31522","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\/31522","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=31522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}