{"id":20853,"date":"2013-07-02T23:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/charges-dropped-in-stander-case\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:16:46","slug":"charges-dropped-in-stander-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/charges-dropped-in-stander-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped in Stander case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=7227\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7227\" alt=\"Burry Stander. Photo: Ian Carbutt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ff786_685a60a49ed544d192cac6122d9dd21a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burry Stander. Photo: Ian Carbutt<\/p>\n<p>The National Prosecuting Authority stated today that culpable homicide charges have been temporarily dropped against a taxi driver who allegedly killed mountain biker <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/rip-burry-stander\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burry Stander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The matter against Njabulo Nyawose was withdrawn in the Port Shepstone Magistrate\u2019s Court, pending a decision by the director of public prosecutions, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"KwaZulu-Natal\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-30.5763888889,30.5763888889spn=0.01,0.01q=-30.5763888889,30.5763888889 (KwaZulu-Natal)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Kwa Zulu-Natal<\/a> NPA spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson said.<\/p>\n<p>He faced a charge of culpable homicide or an alternative charge of reckless or negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>Stander, 25, died on January 3 when a minibus taxi struck him while he was cycling in Shelley Beach on the Kwa Zulu-Natal South Coast.<\/p>\n<p>He was fifth in the men\u2019s cross-country race at the 2012 London Olympics. Four years earlier, at the Beijing Games, he finished 15th in the cross-country event. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">SAPA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ff786_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burry Stander. Photo: Ian Carbutt The National Prosecuting Authority stated today that culpable homicide charges have been temporarily dropped against a taxi driver who allegedly killed mountain biker Burry Stander. The matter against Njabulo Nyawose was withdrawn in the Port Shepstone Magistrate\u2019s Court, pending a decision by the director of public prosecutions, Kwa Zulu-Natal NPA [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/20853","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=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}