{"id":75478,"date":"2017-11-17T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/75478\/missingweb\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:01:33","slug":"missingweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/17\/missingweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen this man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marumo Matthews Lesenya (32) is feared to be dead by his family.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lesenya (32) was last seen on 13 April 2016 in Rockville, when he was apprehended by a group of men, said to be taxi owners, who accused him of stealing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75532\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/BJNOV27-2-17-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/BJNOV27-2-17-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/BJNOV27-2-17-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After he was beaten, tied up with cable ties and taken away in the back of a taxi, one of his friends went to inform his family.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now launching a renewed search for the missing Mr Lesenya. A case of kidnapping is being investigated. Anyone with information about the matter can call Capt. Marinda Grobbelaar on 071 611 1180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national search for a young man that went missing Mhluzi in April 2016 has been launched by the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":75533,"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":[9259,2996,3191,9257,1976,21966,1450,8543,4297,972,9260,9258,4715],"class_list":["post-75478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dead-or-alive","tag-emalahleni","tag-information","tag-lesenya","tag-mhluzi","tag-middelburg","tag-missing","tag-missing-persons","tag-mob-justice","tag-police","tag-rockville","tag-taxi-boss","tag-witbank"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["dead or alive","emalahleni","information","lesenya","Mhluzi","middelburg","missing","missing persons","Mob justice","police","rockville","taxi boss","Witbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75478","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=75478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}