{"id":43646,"date":"2016-02-25T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=43646"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:19:25","slug":"video-african-food-shop-falls-prey-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/25\/video-african-food-shop-falls-prey-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: African Food Shop falls prey again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect was arrested when the owners did their own investigation, but on Monday they found out that he was already back on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage of the break-in helped Felica An Nkosi from the African Food Shop to identify the culprit who was arrested shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nA8xoYEPtsc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>On the video a man can be seen breaking the shop&#8217;s window with a rock before disappearing around the corner. He later comes back and reaches into the shop through the broken window. He could not manage to grab anything of value.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nkosi says that she recognized the suspect on the video because he came around the shop frequently.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have given him water. And at night, before the business closes, him and his friends sometimes come around for the left over food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says that she sent some men to look for him in Mhluzi. They managed to track him down. The suspect vehemently denied his involvement in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>He was brought to the shop so he could see himself on video. Thereafter the police were contacted via a number Ms Nkosi got from the Middelburg Observer website, www.mobserver.co.za.<\/p>\n<p>She said that a policeman came to take fingerprints and promised that one of his colleagues would be back to get the video material. No one ever came.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days later, Ms Nkosi noticed the same man suspected of breaking into her shop, back on the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Capt. Khanyisile Zwane, Middelburg police spokesperson, said that the case was never put on the court-roll and the suspect was released.<\/p>\n<p>She could not comment on why the state decided not to prosecute and said that she could only give feedback once the docket was received back from court.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Last week Monday, two women dumped a black bag full of rotten food in front of the shop entrance. The culprits were never identified.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/43113\/foreign-shopfront-trashed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Foreign shopfront trashed<\/a><\/p>\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> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being the victim of vandals a couple of weeks ago, the foreign owned African Food shop has once again fallen pray to criminals when the shop was broken into over the past weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":43647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43646","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\/43646","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}