{"id":70246,"date":"2017-08-03T18:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70246"},"modified":"2017-08-04T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T06:32:57","slug":"mlotshwa-stands-firm-cross-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/03\/mlotshwa-stands-firm-cross-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Mlotshwa stands firm under cross examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mlotshwa made a statement to police on 8 November 2016 and Sithole on <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">10 November<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The state have not provided the defense with Mlotshwa&#8217;s original statement and Mlotshwa said that he signed but did not read through the typed version in the defense&#8217;s possession.<\/p>\n<p>Adv. Robert Molokoane, for the state, objected to the typed version being handed in as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Adv. Gibbs said other discrepancies, such as on which vehicle Sithole was and their location when the assault on Sithole took place, exists.<\/p>\n<p>Before court adjourned for the day, adv. Gibbs said that his client will testify that he came across Mlotshwa carrying a black bag and that he ran away when he waved for him to come closer.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Oosthuyzen will further that he called in Jackson&#8217;s help when Mlotshwa crossed the railway line into his farm.<\/p>\n<p>Mlotshwa denied the accused&#8217;s version.<\/p>\n<p>Cross examination will continue <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tomorrow<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocate Wayne Gibbs, for Willem Oosthuyzen, said that he believes that Victor Mlotshwa and Delton Sithole spoke before the trial and agreed on a date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70195,"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-70246","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\/70246","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=70246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}