{"id":179498,"date":"2024-08-29T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matela-postmortem-incomplete-witness\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:04:01","slug":"lesotho-matela-postmortem-incomplete-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matela-postmortem-incomplete-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Matela Postmortem Incomplete &#8211; Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">THE murder trial of a Khubetsoana man, Qamo Matela, accused of the 2021 murder of his wife, &#8216;Mahlompho Matela, took a different turn this week with a South African pathologist discrediting a local post mortem report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">South African doctor, Ntsidi Samuel Moopela, has raised concerns over the postmortem report conducted by a local pathologist, Lefatle Phakoane, following the death of &#8216;Mahlompho (n\u00e9e Rethabile Mofolo) in September 2021. Dr Moopela claims that the report failed to accurately determine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408270445.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE murder trial of a Khubetsoana man, Qamo Matela, accused of the 2021 murder of his wife, &#8216;Mahlompho Matela, took a different turn this week with a South African pathologist discrediting a local post mortem report. South African doctor, Ntsidi Samuel Moopela, has raised concerns over the postmortem report conducted by a local pathologist, Lefatle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,14334,4717,1407,14853,257,30191,254,7896],"class_list":["post-179498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-incomplete","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matela","tag-news","tag-postmortem","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}