{"id":48696,"date":"2016-05-19T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/48696\/makola-in-court-for-assault-theft\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:16:16","slug":"makola-in-court-for-assault-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/19\/makola-in-court-for-assault-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Makola in court for assault, theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is alleged that Makola assaulted a 15 year-old boy by hitting him with a stick and his hands and stealing a bag containing an ID book, Canon camera and Sony cellphone belonging to C.H. Roos in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>Makola was released on R1 000 bail and will appear in court again on 22 June for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/47633\/in-court-for-bestiality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: In court for bestiality <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/45162\/shields-in-court-over-damelin-complaints\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shields in court over Damelin complaints<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/33248\/man-in-court-for-breaking-babys-leg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man in court for &#8216;breaking baby&#8217;s leg&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kgomotso John Makola (26) from Extension 5 in Mhluzi, appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on charges of assault and theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48855,"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-48696","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\/48696","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=48696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}