{"id":41862,"date":"2016-01-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/41862\/arrested-for-alleged-perjury\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:36:33","slug":"arrested-for-alleged-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/28\/arrested-for-alleged-perjury\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested for alleged perjury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self acclaimed event organizer, Tshepo Vilakazi (30) from Phumula section, is allegedly notorious for borrowing money and not paying it back. He borrowed an amount of R25 000 and used his fathers Bantam bakkie as collateral for the loan.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived at the police station last week Monday pretending to be an owner of a Bantam bakkie which he claimed was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon investigation Mhluzi detectives discovered the Bantam in Nelspruit and learnt that Vilakazi had given the man who he owed the money the car in November already. Now that his father was looking for his car he quickly cooked up a story that the car was stolen and reported the matter to the police,&#8221; said Sgt Nelisiwe Masemola.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the SAPS, we are here to protect and serve the community but residents must refrain from lying to the police as cases such as these take priority. Serious action will be taken against pepertrators,&#8221; added Sgt Masemola.<\/p>\n<p>Vilakazi appeared in court on Monday and is out on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30 year old man from Mhluzi was arrested on Friday for allegedly lying that his father&#8217;s car was stolen while he used it as collateral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":41863,"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-41862","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\/41862","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=41862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}