{"id":4613,"date":"2024-10-03T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:09:21","slug":"20-year-old-dies-after-ingesting-acid-over-allegations-of-stolen-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4613","title":{"rendered":"20 Year Old Dies After Ingesting Acid Over Allegations of Stolen Cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>South African Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A heartbreaking tragedy unfolded in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga, when 20-year-old Lindokuhle Maphanga was brutally killed after being forced to drink acid over a stolen cellphone allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I could hear my son screaming for help in the background. He was calling out, &#8216;Mama, mama,&#8217; but the caller told him to be quiet,&#8221; recalled Lindokuhle&#8217;s mother, Nonhlanhla Mahula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A taxi owner and his wife allegedly abducted Lindokuhle and his friend, demanding R3,500 to spare his life. However, the situation took a devastating turn when the duo was found abandoned on the roadside, brutally assaulted and forced to ingest acid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was killed for R3,500, which I would have gladly given the taxi owner. We are devastated. What he did was inhumane. I\u2019m struggling to cope with my son&#8217;s brutal death,&#8221; Nonhlanhla lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder, but no arrests have been made yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder. The investigation is ongoing,&#8221; said Mpumalanga police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdluli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonhlanhla demands justice, insisting that the perpetrators be arrested and denied bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They have caused me too much pain,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Correspondent A heartbreaking tragedy unfolded in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga, when 20-year-old Lindokuhle Maphanga was brutally killed after being forced to drink acid over a stolen cellphone allegation. &#8220;I could&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}