{"id":11514,"date":"2013-11-05T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2013-11-05T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T07:36:28","slug":"matric-pupil-beaten-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11514","title":{"rendered":"Matric pupil beaten to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eastlondon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11515\" alt=\"eastlondon\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eastlondon-300x135.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eastlondon-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eastlondon.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A matric pupil has been beaten to death by a group of people who believed he was involved with the disappearance of children in Nomphumelelo township in East London, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 23-year-old Mbulelo Mtati was killed on Sunday, said Brigadier Marinda Mills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe police confirmed that there are no children reported missing in the East London area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mills said there was also no information or evidence linking the man with the crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eastern Cape provincial police provincial commissioner Lieutenant Celiwe Binta said revenge attacks were not an answer to crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are condemning this in the strongest possible way, as these disturbing incidents are unjustifiable. We are in hot pursuit of the perpetrators,\u201d said Binta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A matric pupil has been beaten to death by a group of people who believed he was involved with the disappearance of children in Nomphumelelo township in East London, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. The 23-year-old Mbulelo Mtati was killed on Sunday, said Brigadier Marinda Mills. \u201cThe police confirmed that there are no children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matric pupil beaten to death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7281,3047,610,7280,7279],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-beaten-to-death","tag-east-london","tag-eastern-cape","tag-matric-pupil","tag-nomphumelelo-township"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/eastlondon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}