{"id":49542,"date":"2016-05-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49542\/community-assault-nyaope-boy\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T06:58:22","slug":"community-assault-nyaope-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/28\/community-assault-nyaope-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Community assault nyaope boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

She went outside her house shortly after 18:00 on Saturday night to fetch water from a tap.<\/p>\n

“I took the first bucket of water inside and came out to fill another. As I picked up the bucket to carry it inside, there was a man standing in front of me,” Mrs Mphuthi told the Middelburg Observer.<\/p>\n

She said that she did not know the man, neither how he got into her yard.<\/p>\n

“I asked him ‘What do you want?’ and that is when he took out a very big knife and stabbed me in the stomach.”<\/p>\n

As she fought with her attacker, she screamed for help.<\/p>\n

“I thought to myself that I will fight this man and if I die, it will be on top of him. There was blood all over.”<\/p>\n

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Yolanda Mphuthi said that she was prepared to die when she was attacked by a nyaope boy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She called out to her husband and nanny who were still inside the house. Her nanny came out to see why she was screaming but it took her a while to realise what was happening.<\/p>\n

“We were all so confused at first. We did not know what was happening and I still do not know what the man wanted.”<\/p>\n

Neighbours and members of the community who heard Mrs Mphuthi’s screams rushed to help her. A crowd gathered in front of her gate whilst others tried to jump over her wall to get to her.<\/p>\n

Her husband opened the gate and Mrs Mphuthi’s attacker escaped into the street.<\/p>\n

Before he could get away, he was grabbed and severely assaulted by members of the community.<\/p>\n

“Some of the people outside told me that they know the guy, and that he works at a car wash. They were saying that he is a nyaope boy,” Mrs Mphuti says.<\/p>\n

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She was rushed to hospital with wounds to her left arm and stomach.<\/p>\n

Police came to open a docket. They explained to Mrs Mphuthi that her attacker was seriously injured during the assault by community members and that he has also been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

Srg. Nelisiwe Masemola, Mhluzi police spokesperson, said that Lucky Mashego was arrested and appeared in court on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Yolanda Mphuthi (33) who lives in Burundi (Extension 23) in Mhluzi, said that she was busy preparing for the planned power outage and possible water shortage on Sunday 23 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[2584,1439,1049,1814,1093,1992,1267,2534,4625,1088],"class_list":["post-49542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-assult","tag-community-2","tag-danger","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-gevaar","tag-hospital","tag-nyaope","tag-nyope-boys","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["assult","community","danger","drug bust","drugs","gevaar","hospital","nyaope","nyope boys","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49542","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=49542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}