{"id":68151,"date":"2017-06-13T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=68151"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:05:31","slug":"dapper-polisieman-sterf-jare-na-rowerkoeels-hom-tref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/13\/dapper-polisieman-sterf-jare-na-rowerkoeels-hom-tref\/","title":{"rendered":"Dapper polisieman sterf jare na rowerkoe\u00ebls hom tref"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adjudant offisier Rudi Botha het nie geskroom om die gevaarsone in te stap toe hy hoor sy suster Adri word as gyselaar aangehou tydens \u2019n rooftog by die Checkers op Witbank nie.<\/p>\n<p>Terwyl hy die gebou ingestap het, het die koe\u00eblre\u00ebn uit \u2019n AK47 hom getref. Hy was meer bekommerd oor Simba se welsyn as sy eie en is eers na buite om te sien of sy hond nie getref is nie.<\/p>\n<p>Dit is toe dat hy sien die bloed drup uit sy koe\u00eblvaste baadjie.<\/p>\n<p>Simba was ongedeerd, maar adjudant offisier Botha het sedert daardie dag met sy gesondheid gesukkel en hy is Sondagoggend in die Unitas Hospitaal in Pretoria oorlede.<\/p>\n<p>Familielede s\u00ea toe hy by die polisie navraag doen oor vergoeding is daar aan hom ges\u00ea \u201cgaan haal jou geld by die mense wat jou geskiet het\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sy oudste dogtertjie, Mardi (13) beskou haar pa tot vandag toe as haar grootste held.<\/p>\n<p>Hy laat ook sy vrou Marinda en dogter Marli (9) agter.<\/p>\n<p>Sy begrafnis vind Maandag 19 Junie om 11:00 uit die Volle Evangelie-Kruisgenerasie in Meyerstraat op Middelburg plaas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hy was \u2019n voorslag polisieman, het vir niks gestuit nie, vele arrestasies saam met sy hond Simba uitgevoer&#8230;maar toe tref sewe rowerkoe\u00ebls hom op 24 Junie 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":68152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68151","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\/68151","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=68151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}