{"id":70669,"date":"2017-08-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/70669\/jackson-under-cross-examination-in-coffin-case\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T05:16:05","slug":"jackson-under-cross-examination-in-coffin-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/11\/jackson-under-cross-examination-in-coffin-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson under cross examination in coffin case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said that Mlotshwa told them to do whatever they want with him as long as they did not take him to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Like Oosthuyzen, Jackson testified that Mlotshwa helped them offload the coffin from his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he deleted the video from his phone days after the incident on the request of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jackson, the coffin was burned on instruction of his employer, Hannes de Beer, early in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Adv Robert Molokoane will resume with cross examination when court resumes.<\/p>\n<p>Before the break he asked Jackson if he saw anything wrong with the video. Jackson replied &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo Jackson, accused number two in the coffin case, testified about how they took Mlotshwa to a silage ditch to scare him with a coffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70669","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\/70669","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}