{"id":35988,"date":"2015-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/35988\/mob-set-man-alight\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:06:16","slug":"mob-set-man-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/19\/mob-set-man-alight\/","title":{"rendered":"(Warning Graphic Content) – Mob set man alight"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is alleged that the victim stole a Samsung cellphone and sold it to someone in the area.<\/p>\n

The angry mob confronted the man and demanded the cellphone, he however denied stealing the phone.<\/p>\n

Lucky Motha, the victim, was pointed out by the cellphone buyer as the person from whom he bought the Samsung cellphone from for R200.<\/p>\n

The furious mob started assaulting the victim, pour petrol over him and set him alight.<\/p>\n

Police arrived on the scene and arrested two of the mob leaders, Albert Bhilla and June Nkambule.<\/p>\n

Motha is still recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n

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Lucky Motha is lucky to be alive. He is still recovering in hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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An alleged cellphone thief was seriously injured after he was assaulted and set alight by an angry mob in Hendrina, Kwazamokuhle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":36118,"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-35988","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\/35988","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=35988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}