{"id":70173,"date":"2017-08-02T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70173"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:04:09","slug":"day-3-coffincase-cross-examination-sithole-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/02\/day-3-coffincase-cross-examination-sithole-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 #Coffincase: Cross examination of Sithole completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adv. Basson said that the place where Sithole alleges he crossed the railway line and the ditch he jumped over is 1,3 km apart.<\/p>\n<p>Basson said that Sithole was never there and that his whole story was made up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no incident as far as you are concerned that took place on <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">17 August<\/span><\/span> and my client will testify that he does no know you. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sithole said under re-examination that he lied down on the back of Jackson&#8217;s bakkie because he did not want the Big House community to think he &#8220;was working with the whites&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:<a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70154\/day-3-coffincase-trial-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Update 11 &#8211; Day 3 #CoffinCase trial &#8211; as it happens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70129\/update-accused-call-witness-satellite-tracking-vehcles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Accused to call witness on satellite tracking of vehicles <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70124\/day-two-coffincase-trial-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day two coffin case trial continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70112\/video-coffincase-inspection-location\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: #Coffincase Inspection of location<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70111\/day-two-coffin-case-trial-start-middelburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day two of coffin case trial about to start in Middelburg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70100\/second-day-coffin-case-trial-set-start\/\" target=\"_blank\">Second day of Coffin Case trial set to start<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter <\/a>for more updates as it happens<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adv. Org Basson completed his cross examination of Delton Sithole shortly after midday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff and Zsaraeva Nel","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5864,5876,6029,7294,5875,7297],"class_list":["post-70173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-coffin","tag-coffin-alive","tag-coffin-assault","tag-coffin-blinkpan","tag-coffin-case","tag-coffin-case-middelburg"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["coffin","Coffin Alive","coffin assault","coffin Blinkpan","coffin case","coffin case Middelburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173","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=70173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}