{"id":61986,"date":"2017-01-16T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=61986"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:05:10","slug":"accused-of-raping-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/16\/accused-of-raping-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused of raping corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two accused, aged 36 and 35, cannot be named before they have pleaded at the court due to the sexual offences charge.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the men murdered a man only mentioned as Mntambara on 1 July 2016 and raped him.<\/p>\n<p>The men were refused bail and the matter was postponed to next week for a final time for a decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Mhluzi residents, one from Extension 6 and the other from Tokologo, appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on charges of murder and suspicions that they raped the corpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":61987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61986","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=61986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}