{"id":81992,"date":"2018-06-12T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=81992"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T09:03:28","slug":"sangoma-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/06\/12\/sangoma-murder-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangoma on murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mojafela Dlamini (24), Nkosingiphile Khoza (24), Bhekinkosi Simeon Thabethe (34), and Sbusiso Thabethe (38) are facing charges of murder. It is alleged the men stabbed the deceased with a knife at the Iraq Taxi Rank.<\/p>\n

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A photo of Bhekinkosi Simeon Thabethe, one of the accused.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the police report, the deceased was transported to the Middelburg Provincial Hospital<\/a> by his friend but died on arrival. He had two stab wounds. It is not clear what led to the incident. The accused remain in police custody.<\/p>\n

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A photo of Mojafela Dlamini, one of the accused.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also read: Wet Sangoma drying in cell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 One of the accused, Sibusiso Thabethe, a self-proclaimed sangoma<\/a>, fooled police in 2014 into believing he drowned. Police launched a massive search and rescue operation. He was arrested for attempted murder, kidnapping and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, but was only charged for having an unlicensed firearm.<\/p>\n

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A photo of Nkosingiphile Khoza, one of the accused.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Four men accused of the murder of Mxolisi Shabalala (20) appearead in the Middelburg Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":81993,"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":[11834,10010,21966,9380,1297,11833,9360,11835],"class_list":["post-81992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-four-men-accused-of-murder","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-crime","tag-middelburg-provincial-hospital","tag-murder-of-mxolisi-shabalala","tag-sangoma","tag-sangoma-on-murder-charge"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Four men accused of murder","local news","middelburg","middelburg crime","Middelburg Provincial Hospital","Murder of Mxolisi Shabalala","sangoma","Sangoma on murder charge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81992","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}