{"id":965786,"date":"2024-07-15T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965786"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:21:27","slug":"joslin-smith-disappearance-case-adjourned-to-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/joslin-smith-disappearance-case-adjourned-to-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Joslin Smith disappearance case adjourned to September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four accused in the case of the disappearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/community-members-begin-search-for-joslin-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six-year-old Joslin Smith<\/a> will be back in the Vredenburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court in the Western Cape on September 16. They appeared briefly in court this morning when the case was postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl went missing from her house in the Middelpos informal settlement in Saldanha Bay, nearly five months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Four people including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/joslins-mother-urged-to-tell-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the child&#8217;s mother Kelly Smith and her boyfriend Jacquin Appollis face several charges<\/a> in connection with her disappearance.\u00a0The charges include trafficking in persons with the purpose of exploitation and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>A High Court date will be set when the accused re-appears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | The four accused court appearance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lEA8q7cbzI?si=P585VFRLt42HH_Sv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl went missing from her house in the Middelpos informal settlement five months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965786","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=965786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}