{"id":64734,"date":"2017-03-20T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=64734"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:08:22","slug":"update-learner-dies-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/20\/update-learner-dies-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Learner dies in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His uncle, Johannes Choma, confirmed to the Middelburg Observer that Siphamandla died in hospital on Sunday, 19 March, after he deteriorated over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/62365\/media-frenzy-over-paralyzed-student\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media frenzy over paralyzed student<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/62673\/update-headmaster-remains-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Headmaster remains suspended<\/a><br \/>\nSiphamandla was accused of stealing R150 before he was beaten up by a principal, which allegedly left him paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p>The educator was suspended last month and the department stated that they launched an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>His family laid a R25 million lawsuit against the Mpumalanga Education Department, of which the department acknowledged receipt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siphamandla Choma, the 14 year old school child of Manyano Primary who was allegedly assaulted by an educator in Mhluzi late last year, has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":64742,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64734","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\/64734","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=64734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}