{"id":84150,"date":"2018-08-28T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84150"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:56:16","slug":"assault-case-referred-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/28\/assault-case-referred-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault case referred for decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Siphamandla Choma was paralysed in 2016 after he was allegedly assaulted by his principal at Manyano Primary School in Mhluzi.
\nThe young boy died in the Middelburg Provincial Hospital on 19 March 2017.<\/p>\n

Also read: Media frenzy over paralysed student<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SAPS initially opened an inquest docket.<\/p>\n

Also read: Siphamandla ‘died of cancer’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The charge was later changed to assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
\nThe principal was later dismissed by the Department of Basic Education.<\/p>\n

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The case of the young boy who was assaulted so badly in 2016 that he ended up in a wheelchair, has been referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions for a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84151,"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":[4755,13194,13193,13192,13195],"class_list":["post-84150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-middelburg-saps","tag-siphamandla-choma-allegedly-assaulted-by-principal","tag-siphamandla-choma-died-in-hospital","tag-siphamandla-choma-paralysed","tag-siphamandla-dies-of-cancer"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Middelburg SAPS","Siphamandla Choma allegedly assaulted by principal","Siphamandla Choma died in hospital","Siphamandla Choma paralysed","Siphamandla dies of cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84150","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=84150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}