{"id":7273,"date":"2012-01-22T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T06:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/soccer-former-south-africa-defender-ntuka-murdered\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T08:58:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T06:58:32","slug":"soccer-former-south-africa-defender-ntuka-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-former-south-africa-defender-ntuka-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Former South Africa defender Ntuka murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South Africa<br \/>\ndefender Jeffrey Ntuka was murdered on Saturday after he was<br \/>\nstabbed near his girlfriend&#8217;s house in the South African town of<br \/>\nKroonstad, local news service Eyewitness News reported.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ntuka asked for matches from these six unknown guys which<br \/>\nled to a quarrel. One of the guys then stabbed Ntuka on his<br \/>\nchest,&#8221; it quoted a police spokesman as saying on its website.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ntuka, 26, started his career at English club Chelsea in<br \/>\n2003, although he did not make a first team appearance, and<br \/>\nspent five years on loan at Westerlo in Belgium before returning<br \/>\nhome to join Kaizer Chiefs and SuperSport United.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has a reputation for violent crime with some of<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s highest murder rates.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ed Stoddard, Editing by Ken Ferris; To query<br \/>\nor comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/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 Jan 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South Africa defender Jeffrey Ntuka was murdered on Saturday after he was stabbed near his girlfriend&#8217;s house in the South African town of Kroonstad, local news service Eyewitness News reported. &#8220;Ntuka asked for matches from these six unknown guys which led to a quarrel. One of the guys then [&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-7273","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\/7273","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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}