{"id":69139,"date":"2017-07-05T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69139"},"modified":"2017-07-14T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:00:28","slug":"murdered-man-dumped-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/05\/murdered-man-dumped-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Graphic Content &#8211; Murdered man dumped in river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body was badly bruised and decomposing &#8211; putting the time of death at possibly two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial reports indicate that the man was stabbed in the chest and in his face. We are investigating a case of murder,&#8221; said Captain Khanyisile Zwane of the Mhluzi SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>The body was naked and the only identifying feature is that the man is wearing an earring.<\/p>\n<p>The Sangoma was busy with a ritual near the river when he noticed the body. He then called the police.<\/p>\n<p>Other news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69093\/breaking-news-14-killed-scores-injured-truck-two-sprinters-collide-badplaas-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">BREAKING NEWS: 14 killed, scores injured after truck and two Sprinters collide on the Badplaas Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69088\/nuusflits-14-dood-tientalle-beseer-gru-botsing-tussen-trok-en-twee-sprinters-op-badplaaspad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuusflits: 14 dood, tientalle beseer in gru botsing tussen trok en twee Sprinters op Badplaaspad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appeal to the community to please come forward and assist in the investigation and to help identify the man,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem will be conducted later this week to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The washed up body of an unknown male was discovered on Friday morning by a Sangoma in the Klein Olifants River, between Mhluzi and Walter Sisulu Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69140,"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-69139","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\/69139","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=69139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}