{"id":7731,"date":"2012-02-08T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/south-african-man-escapes-zombies-but-not-police-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T01:46:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:46:40","slug":"south-african-man-escapes-zombies-but-not-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-man-escapes-zombies-but-not-police-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South African man escapes zombies but not police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police<br \/>\nhave arrested a suspected fraudster for impersonating the<br \/>\naward-winning traditional singer Khulekani Kwakhe &#8220;Mgqumeni&#8221;<br \/>\nKhumalo, who died in 2009.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unnamed man, who appeared in court in the eastern<br \/>\nKwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday, had said he had not died but<br \/>\nwas kidnapped by a witchdoctor who cast a spell on him and<br \/>\nimprisoned him in a cave with zombies, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Khumalo&#8217;s rural eastern home village<br \/>\nof Esiggumeni, turned out to see the man at the weekend. Riot<br \/>\npolice with truncheons and water cannons were deployed to keep<br \/>\nthe crowd under control.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always been alive,&#8221; he was quoted as telling the<br \/>\ncrowd by the Independent Online news site. &#8220;I have lost a lot of<br \/>\nweight but it is me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect&#8217;s fingerprints do not match those of<br \/>\nthe famed singer. The man also does not have the same scars on<br \/>\nhis face as Khumalo had.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Detectives conducting the enquiry were convinced that the<br \/>\nmatter required criminal investigation,&#8221; police said in a<br \/>\nstatement.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)<\/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 Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police have arrested a suspected fraudster for impersonating the award-winning traditional singer Khulekani Kwakhe &#8220;Mgqumeni&#8221; Khumalo, who died in 2009. The unnamed man, who appeared in court in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday, had said he had not died but was kidnapped by a witchdoctor who cast [&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-7731","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\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}