{"id":78789,"date":"2018-03-02T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=78789"},"modified":"2018-03-06T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:54:57","slug":"ex-soldier-accused-killing-girlfriend-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/03\/02\/ex-soldier-accused-killing-girlfriend-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-soldier accused of killing girlfriend on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Thipe, a former South African National Defence Forces (SANDF) member, was arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend, who also worked in the SANDF in Middelburg, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thipe and the deceased were engaged and had a four-year-old daughter at the time of the murder.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of the deceased filed in a missing case report with the police after she tried contacting her daughter with no success, the accused was then arrested for the murder of his fiancee.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thipe allegedly suffocated his fiancee and set the corpse alight on the Vlakpoort road underneath a bridge. Mr Thipe is facing charges of murder and defeating the ends of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murder accused Ezekile Motsumi Thipe&#8217;s trial is set to begin in Breyten Magistrate Court on 5 March 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":62091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[6019,10616,21966,1450,1636,10614,10615,5218],"class_list":["post-78789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-4sai","tag-breyten-magistrate-court","tag-middelburg","tag-missing","tag-murder","tag-soldier","tag-thipe","tag-trial"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["4sai","breyten magistrate court","middelburg","missing","murder","soldier","Thipe","trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789","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=78789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}