{"id":50312,"date":"2016-06-07T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/50312\/three-in-court-for-assault-kidnapping\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:11:07","slug":"three-in-court-for-assault-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/07\/three-in-court-for-assault-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Three in court for assault, kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is alleged that Lesiba Chris Matlou (40), Nelisiwe Johanna Mahlangu (18) and Jimmy Jiane (39) broke into the house of Jimmy Thukwane on 3 May.<\/p>\n

They allegedly hit him with knobkierries and other objects and damaged his door, bed, wardrobe and fridge. Thereafter the trio allegedly kidnapped Thukwane by taking him to Avalon by force.<\/p>\n

They also allegedly stole his cellphone and tools.<\/p>\n

Matlou and Jiane were released on R500 bail whilst Mahlangu had to pay R300 to be released from custody. The matter has been postponed for a final time to today (Friday).<\/p>\n

Read other related stories here:<\/p>\n

Update: Young girl raped, strangled<\/a><\/p>\n

Body found under bridge<\/a><\/p>\n

Read other stories here:<\/p>\n

Body in river<\/a><\/p>\n

Wie is die vrou wat gegil het?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men and a woman from Avalon appeared in court on charges of house break-ins, assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, malicious damage to property, kidnapping and theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50349,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[4838,4836,1870,1497,4839,4634,4840,1049,1992,4837,4841,2240,1976,1607,1088],"class_list":["post-50312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-assualt","tag-avalon","tag-body","tag-break-in","tag-break-ins","tag-bridge","tag-charges","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-kidnapping","tag-knobkierries","tag-men","tag-mhluzi","tag-rape","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["assualt","Avalon","body","break in","break-ins","bridge","charges","danger","gevaar","kidnapping","knobkierries","men","Mhluzi","rape","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50312","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=50312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}