{"id":10882,"date":"2013-10-07T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2013-10-07T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:56:45","slug":"trial-of-anene-booysen-killer-starts-in-swellendam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10882","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Anene Booysen killer starts in Swellendam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10050\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kanarape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10050\" alt=\"Johannes Kana\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kanarape-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kanarape-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kanarape.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johannes Kana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial of the man accused of raping and killing teenager Anene Booysen is expected to begin in the Swellendam Circuit Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johannes Kana&#8217;s last court appearance was at the Western Cape High Court on September 7, where the trial was set down for four weeks. A total of 52 witnesses were expected to be called to testify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutor Maria Marshall said she had provided Kana&#8217;s lawyer Pieter du Toit with further particulars and would deliver the last statements to him. She had drafted a set of admissions for the defence to consider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Should the defence make certain admissions, the trial was likely to be shortened as fewer witnesses would have to be called.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Du Toit said there was a possibility of two trials-within-a-trial, one related to a statement Kana made and the other to a videotape of Kana pointing out scenes to police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kana remained in custody. The 21-year-old allegedly raped and disembowelled 17-year-old Booysen between the night of Friday, February 1 and morning of February 2 this year, near Kleinbegin, Bredasdorp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She died at Tygerberg Hospital on the afternoon of February 2. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of the man accused of raping and killing teenager Anene Booysen is expected to begin in the Swellendam Circuit Court on Monday. Johannes Kana&#8217;s last court appearance was at the Western Cape High Court on September 7, where the trial was set down for four weeks. A total of 52 witnesses were expected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trial of Anene Booysen killer starts in Swellendam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2565,5870,34,5869,40],"class_list":["post-10882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anene-booysen","tag-bredasdorp","tag-crime","tag-johannes-kana","tag-murder"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kanarape.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}