{"id":964076,"date":"2024-07-03T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964076"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:38:46","slug":"five-accused-in-mahikeng-triple-murder-to-apply-for-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/five-accused-in-mahikeng-triple-murder-to-apply-for-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Five accused in Mahikeng triple-murder to apply for bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/five-suspects-in-2019-kabe-murders-apply-for-bail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">triple-murder court case<\/a> against five accused Mmapula, Lesego and Goitseone Seletedi, Lerato Molefe and Johnson Motsamai is expected to resume at the Molopo Magistrate&#8217;s Court in Mahikeng today.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims, 28-year-old Yvonne Setshego, her one-year-old son Keamogetse and a 45-year-old witness, Dokky Motsamai, were killed in 2019, and their bodies were allegedly dumped in pit toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the accused were arrested last month while the fifth was arrested last week.<\/p>\n<p>During their last court appearance last week Thursday, the lawyers for the accused stated that they all intend to plead not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>They further stated that they are not flight risks and would not threaten members of the community.<\/p>\n<h4>VIDEO | Triple-murder case postponed in North West:<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2F3qykZwAtg?si=8DntNfUUymiByxMs&amp;start=49\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the accused were arrested last month while the fifth was arrested last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-964076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-murder-north-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}