{"id":51768,"date":"2026-04-15T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51768"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:23:31","slug":"mbekweni-murder-accused-refuses-legal-aid-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51768","title":{"rendered":"Mbekweni murder accused refuses legal aid in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>The accused in the tragic Mbekweni murder case made his first court appearance, refusing state legal aid while the State argues he poses a flight risk. Will justice be served?<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/capeargus\/news\/2026-04-15-mbekweni-murder-accused-refuses-legal-aid-in-court\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accused in the tragic Mbekweni murder case made his first court appearance, refusing state legal aid while the State argues he poses a flight risk.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}