{"id":45560,"date":"2016-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/45560\/cabin-inferno-still-a-mystery-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:10:52","slug":"cabin-inferno-still-a-mystery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/26\/cabin-inferno-still-a-mystery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabin inferno still a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zodwa Mthimunye and her boyfriend Romeo John Mokoena, both <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/44309\/two-burn-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">burnt to death when the log cabin they were staying in mysteriously caught on fire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The entire cabin was burnt to the ground, leaving no clues for the Middelburg Fire and Rescue Services, to determine the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Loskop Dam management confirmed that a specialized SAPS forensic team would therefore lead the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation will involve a lot of laboratory work, and Captain Khanyisile Zwane says that the report may take weeks to compile.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45560 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\/2016\/03\/26\/cabin-inferno-still-a-mystery-2\/attachment\/romeo_24811\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/Romeo_24811-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/Romeo_24811-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/Romeo_24811-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/Romeo_24811.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-1-45562'>\n\t\t\t\tRomeo John Mokoena and Zodwa Mthimunye&#8217;s families are no closer to knowing what caused the cabin inferno in which both were killed.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are yet to determine the cause of the fire which killed a young couple on a weekend break at Loskop Dam a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1438,3007,3852,1877,3854,923,972,3853,3855],"class_list":["post-45560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-inferno","tag-investigation","tag-log-cabin","tag-loskop-dam","tag-police","tag-resort","tag-zodwa-mthimunye"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["fire","fire department","inferno","investigation.","log cabin","Loskop dam","police","resort","zodwa mthimunye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560","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=45560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}