{"id":13295,"date":"2025-10-13T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-nab-alleged-serial-rapist-linked-to-9-cases-of-rape-robbery\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:18","slug":"sa-police-nab-alleged-serial-rapist-linked-to-9-cases-of-rape-robbery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-police-nab-alleged-serial-rapist-linked-to-9-cases-of-rape-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"SA police nab alleged serial rapist linked to 9 cases of rape,\u00a0robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Police Spokesperson, Thenjiswa Ngcobo, says two men would overpower their victims in the areas of KwaDukuza, oThongathi and Mandeni, rape them and then rob them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 9 incidents happened between 2013 and 2016. In one case a woman was walking with her mother-in-law along a sugarcane field when they were attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ngcobo says the police were looking for the two suspects and located the 36-year-old man hiding in a forest near KwaDukuza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13296,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13295","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"An alleged serial rapist linked to 9 cases of rape and robbery over a 3-year period on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, has been arrested||An alleged serial rapist linked to 9 cases of rape and robbery over a 3-year period on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, has been arrested","published_date":"2025-10-13 00:00:00||2025-10-13 00:00:00","news_description":"An alleged serial rapist linked to 9 cases of rape and robbery over a 3-year period on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, has been arrested||An alleged serial rapist linked to 9 cases of rape and robbery over a 3-year period on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, has been arrested","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13295\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}