{"id":39644,"date":"2026-07-15T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39644"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:03:16","slug":"uk-murder-suspect-awaits-second-court-hearing-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uk-murder-suspect-awaits-second-court-hearing-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"UK murder suspect awaits second court hearing in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">British Zimbabwean Ndodana Tshuma is awaiting a second hearing next week for the alleged murder of his wife and two daughters in Bedfordshire, south-east England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He fled to South Africa (SA) and now the United Kingdom (UK) is looking to SA authorities to extradite him back to face justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tshuma made a brief appearance in Johannesburg Court, Gauteng Province, earlier in the week, and will come before a judge once again next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The UK Crown Prosecution Service earlier confirmed that it is working with agencies in the UK and in SA to help progress the extradition process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Prosecutors have asked that there is no reporting or sharing of information online which could prejudice proceedings in SA or any future prosecution in England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But it has confirmed the body of his wife, known by friends as Zandile, along with his children 15-year-old Natalie, and 5-year-old Nala were found at the family home last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Their cause of death has been described by officials as &#8220;blunt force trauma&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39644","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"UK murder case","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39644","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\/39644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39645,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39644\/revisions\/39645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}