{"id":70578,"date":"2017-08-09T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70578"},"modified":"2017-08-09T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:20:59","slug":"flowers-for-judge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/09\/flowers-for-judge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers for judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A resident of Middelburg, who wished to remain anonymous, went to put a bowl of brightly-coloured flowers in the courtroom where Judge Sheila Mphahlele was hearing the case.<\/p>\n

The bunch of flowers was later removed by the clerk of the court.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI do not want my name linked to this; I am doing this on behalf of Middelburg,\u201d the man said. \u201cWe are a town that cares. This coffin case must not polarise us; we are not a town of racists. We care about people and we are a fantastic community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giving his reason for the flowers to Judge Mphahlele, he said: \u201cperhaps something good might just emerge from this case. We want to show the world that we mean well, and that we must learn to get along with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Update: Oosthuyzen completes testimony<\/a><\/p>\n

Update: More police ordered to keep order during #Coffincase trial<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bunch of yellow Iceland poppies brightened up the sombre atmosphere in the courtroom where the coffin-case is being heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70571,"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-70578","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\/70578","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=70578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}