{"id":32319,"date":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/32319\/soldier-and-friend-found\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:50:32","slug":"soldier-and-friend-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/04\/soldier-and-friend-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Soldier and friend found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family reported Mamabolo Lesego (22) and Bruno Ndlovu (31) missing after they were last seen close to the Zambezi Toll Plaza en route to Middelburg. <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32116\/soldier-and-friend-dissappear-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">They never reached their destination.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pathologist revealed that Lesego and Ndlovu was in an accident near Ackerville. Lesego was taken to hospital in a critical condition and Ndlovu lost his life.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32319 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/04\/soldier-and-friend-found\/attachment\/bjjul65-1_624954241\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-1_624954241-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-32321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-1_624954241-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-1_624954241-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-1_624954241.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-32321'>\n\t\t\t\tMamabolo Lesego (22) remains in a critical condition.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/04\/soldier-and-friend-found\/attachment\/bjjul65-2-1_647246590\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-2-1_647246590-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-32320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-2-1_647246590-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-2-1_647246590-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/08\/BJJUL65-2-1_647246590.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-32320'>\n\t\t\t\tBruno Ndlovu (33) died in an accident on his way from Pretoria to Middelburg.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32116\/soldier-and-friend-dissappear-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soldier and friend dissappear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier and her friend, who were reported missing on Sunday 19 July, were found after a member of the Pathology Department in eMalahleni read about them in the Middelburg Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":32322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32319","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=32319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}