{"id":74029,"date":"2017-10-20T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=74029"},"modified":"2017-10-21T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T12:15:49","slug":"robbed-broken-beer-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/20\/robbed-broken-beer-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbed with a broken beer bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mokuthula Mlangeni (26) is a student at MidCol. They are currently busy writing exams.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, she and a friend walked home after finishing their tests.<\/p>\n

Read: Body in river<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Whilst walking next to the river, the women were approached by a well dressed man.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was tall, wearing a baseball cap. He was clean and neat, we never suspected something was wrong,\u201d says Ms Mlangeni.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ad on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The man pressed a broken bottleneck against Ms Mlangeni’s arm and demanded she drop her bags.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked in a hushed voice, saying \u2018Let go of your bags mamma\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A second robber was standing a distance away. As soon as the bottle wielding robber got hold of her belongings, he made a run for it.<\/p>\n

Kyk:\u00a0VIDEO: Soos diere agtervolg hulle man\u00a0(Waarskuwing – nie vir sensitiewe kykers)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two men, driving past in a car, noticed the ordeal and stopped to help the women. They ran after the robbers but could not catch up with him.<\/p>\n

Ms Mlangeni called her husband to the scene. He searched in the direction the robbers ran and managed to find his wife’s study books and other belongings.<\/p>\n

Read: Man’s head, hand found in river<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Her wallet was picked up days later by another resident, Kobus Terreblanche, who went for a walk next to the river.<\/p>\n

Ms Mlangeni still has a scar where the bottle pierced her arm. She\u00a0attempted to open a case with the police. A female officer in the charge office told her that it will be of no use because she does not know her attacker.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said I can open a case today, but they will simply close the investigation tomorrow, so it is now use. Who on earth knows the person who robbed them? That happens very seldom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A wallet and ID book, picked up next to the river by a good Samaritan, had a horror story behind it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":74032,"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":[2885,2],"tags":[8370,8369,9,8372,8374,7942,21966,1107,8375,1470,8373,7523,8371],"class_list":["post-74029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-beer-bottle","tag-bottleneck","tag-local-crime-news","tag-do-not-walk-alone","tag-good-samaritan","tag-klein-olifants","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-observer","tag-mobserver","tag-river","tag-safety-tips","tag-stabbed","tag-unsafe-places-in-middelburg"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["beer bottle","bottleneck","Crime","do not walk alone","good samaritan","klein olifants","middelburg","Middelburg Observer","mobserver","river","safety tips","stabbed","unsafe places in Middelburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74029","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}