{"id":70233,"date":"2017-08-03T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70233"},"modified":"2017-08-03T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:15:03","slug":"cross-examination-mlotshwa-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/03\/cross-examination-mlotshwa-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross examination of Mlotshwa to start"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court was shown two videos, the one that went viral on social media and led to the charges against Willem Oosthuyzen and Theo Jackson, as well as a second, much longer one, made available by their defence on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

During the longer video, members of the public showed their shock with many walking out and other bursting out in tears.<\/p>\n

Mlotshwa denied stealing cable, as alleged on the video and also disputed the place pointed out by the accused, during the inspection in loco on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He has completed his testimony in chief. The court adjourned before cross examination will start.<\/p>\n

Also read: Update: Victor Mlotshwa takes to the stand to testify<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 3 #Coffincase: Cross examination of Sithole completed<\/a><\/p>\n

Update 11 \u2013 Day 3 #CoffinCase trial \u2013 as it happens<\/a><\/p>\n

Update: Accused to call witness on satellite tracking of vehicles <\/a><\/p>\n

Day two coffin case trial continues<\/a><\/p>\n

Video: #Coffincase Inspection of location<\/a><\/p>\n

Day two of coffin case trial about to start in Middelburg<\/a><\/p>\n

Second day of Coffin Case trial set to start<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow us on Facebook <\/a>and Twitter <\/a>for more updates as it happens<\/p>\n

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Victor Mlotshwa, the man who was forced into a coffin, continued his testimony today (Thusday). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70234,"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":[],"class_list":["post-70233","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\/70233","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=70233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}