{"id":40815,"date":"2026-07-27T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40815"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:20:40","slug":"body-of-rugby-player-luqobo-makwedini-returns-home-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/body-of-rugby-player-luqobo-makwedini-returns-home-to-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of rugby player Luqobo Makwedini returns home to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The body of 20-year-old rugby player Luqobo Makwedini, who died after collapsing following a training session in France, has arrived home in South Africa (SA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The body will be kept at a funeral parlour at Quigney in KuGompo City, Eastern Cape province while funeral arrangements are finalised.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Makwedini, who was on a three-year contract with French club B\u00e9ziers, died after suffering heatstroke.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was rushed to hospital but later died.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended condolences to the family of Makwedini.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40816,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-40815","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended condolences to the family of Makwedini.","published_date":"","news_description":"SA President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended condolences to the family of Makwedini.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40815","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\/40815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40817,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40815\/revisions\/40817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}