{"id":45677,"date":"2026-09-16T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45677"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:21:33","slug":"former-sabc-sports-presenter-owen-ndlovu-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-sabc-sports-presenter-owen-ndlovu-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SABC Sports Presenter Owen Ndlovu found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Former the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Sports Presenter and music rights activist Owen Ndlovu has been found dead.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>This has been confirmed by his family in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Ndlovu was hijacked and kidnapped in Katlehong, on Gauteng\u2019s East Rand on Tuesday night while fetching his wife from church.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Police say three men, one armed with a gun, accosted him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>His body was found by residents in Thokoza on Wednesday morning.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45679,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45677","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Police say three men, one armed with a gun, accosted him.","published_date":"","news_description":"Police say three men, one armed with a gun, accosted him.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45677","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\/45677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45678,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45677\/revisions\/45678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}