{"id":964753,"date":"2024-07-08T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964753"},"modified":"2024-07-08T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:59:23","slug":"memorial-service-to-be-held-in-pienaar-for-two-murdered-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/memorial-service-to-be-held-in-pienaar-for-two-murdered-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service to be held in Pienaar for two murdered children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Pienaar outside Mbombela in Mpumalanga is expected to hold a memorial service this afternoon for two children. They were murdered allegedly by an 18-year-old suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/childrens-bodies-exhumed-in-pienaar-families-demand-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six-year-old Junior Mabandla and three-year-old Peaceful Khoza<\/a> were exhumed last week after they had gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>The community apprehended the suspect who led them to the shallow graves of both the children.<\/p>\n<p>The police confirmed that the remains of Mabandla were found buried in another person&#8217;s grave at a local cemetery with some body parts missing after he had been missing since early last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO |<\/strong> <strong>Police under fire over serious crime in Pienaar township:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ax1N1atwxaw?si=EDw8K-a2OuBNhYDa\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of six-year-old Junior Mabandla and three-year-old Peaceful Khoza were exhumed last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":964754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[590,842,843,844,845],"class_list":["post-964753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-junior-mabandla","tag-memorial-service","tag-murdered-children","tag-peaceful-khoza","tag-pienaar-mbombela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964753","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}