{"id":72270,"date":"2017-09-13T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T09:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72270"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T06:23:15","slug":"update-former-principal-appears-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/13\/update-former-principal-appears-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Former principal appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69727\/update-principal-charged-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siphamandla<\/a> was allegedly assaulted by the principal of his primary school in Mhluzi late last year, after he was accused of stealing R150.<\/p>\n<p>He was left paralysed and his family instituted a legal claim worth R25 Million against the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>In March this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/Siphamandla \u2018died of cancer\u2019\" target=\"_blank\">Siphamandla died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Autopsy results have not been revealed but according to a well placed source, the child may have died of Cancer and not as a result of the beating.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/65025\/siphamandla-died-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siphamandla \u2018died of cancer\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/62365\/media-frenzy-over-paralyzed-student\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media frenzy over paralyzed student<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/62673\/update-headmaster-remains-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Headmaster remains suspended<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One neighbour, who spoke to the Middelburg Observer on condition of anonymity, said that the boy was in and out of hospital with a walking problem for many months before the assault.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-solid\"><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible that the assault aggravated the condition but certainly did not cause it,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The accused appeared in Middelburg Regional Court last week on a charge of assault GBH, and the matter was postponed to 12 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 44 year old former school principal of Manyano Primary, Khutje Mseteka, appeared before the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court, on a charge of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) in connection with the 2016 assault of 14 year old student, Siphamandla Choma, who has since died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1854,2012,2011,1049,1992,7534,2379,7533,2698,1088],"class_list":["post-72270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cancer","tag-child","tag-court","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-manyano-primary-school","tag-principal","tag-r150","tag-steal","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Cancer","child","court","danger","gevaar","Manyano Primary School","principal","R150","steal","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72270","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=72270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}