{"id":35298,"date":"2015-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/35298\/man-dies-at-park\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:39:57","slug":"man-dies-at-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/30\/man-dies-at-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies at park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Growth Path Projects TVET College held its Heritage Day celebrations with speakers and gazibo&#8217;s at the Van Blerk Plain square to inform the public about their college and its activities.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that there was a drinking competition, where two men were given each a 2 Lt Sparletta Pine-nut drink.<\/p>\n<p>An identified male died after drinking the cold drink.<\/p>\n<p>The college&#8217;s landline and the Campus Manager&#8217;s phone&#8217;s rang unanswered on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is also alleged by an unconfirmed rumour that in Mhluzi at the OR Tambo park a man posing as a pastor gave his audience fat cakes to eat with poison. One man also died as a result.<\/p>\n<article id=\"post\" class=\"post-30951 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news-general content-print\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college&#8217;s Heritage celebrations ended in tragedy as a man died after having a sip of a drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":35299,"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-35298","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\/35298","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=35298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}