{"id":15625,"date":"2012-10-16T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-african-pop-star-guilty-of-drag-race-child-murders\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:05:39","slug":"s-african-pop-star-guilty-of-drag-race-child-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-pop-star-guilty-of-drag-race-child-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African pop star guilty of drag-race child murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 16 (Reuters) &#8211; One of South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nforemost hip hop musicians was convicted on Tuesday of murdering<br \/>\nfour school children while street racing, drunk and on drugs,<br \/>\nthrough Soweto, bringing an end to a trial that has gripped the<br \/>\ncountry for more than two years.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The court found Molemo &#8220;Jub Jub&#8221; Maarohanye and his friend,<br \/>\nThemba Tshabalala, guilty on four counts of murder and two of<br \/>\nattempted murder after their speeding Mini Coopers ploughed into<br \/>\nthe children as they walked back from school in the sprawling<br \/>\nJohannesburg township in March 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death of the deceased was caused by the accuseds&#8217;<br \/>\nreckless driving at high speeds while under the influence of<br \/>\ndrugs and alcohol,&#8221; judge Brian Nemavhidi said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pair have not yet been sentenced but could face life in<br \/>\nprison.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A TV personality and music star, Maarohanye appeared<br \/>\nemotionless as he heard the verdict, which was broadcast live on<br \/>\ntelevision. The mother of one of the victims passed out during<br \/>\nthe proceedings and had to be carried from the court.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Road accidents kill nearly 40 people every day in South<br \/>\nAfrica, with unreliable vehicles and poor driving &#8211; including<br \/>\nexcessive speeding and drunkenness &#8211; mostly to blame.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Peroshni Govender; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 16 (Reuters) &#8211; One of South Africa&#8217;s foremost hip hop musicians was convicted on Tuesday of murdering four school children while street racing, drunk and on drugs, through Soweto, bringing an end to a trial that has gripped the country for more than two years. The court found Molemo &#8220;Jub Jub&#8221; Maarohanye and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}