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The suspect at the time flee from the scene and was subsequently arrested by the police in Ginsberg, King William\u2019s Town.  He remains in police custody until his sentencing tomorrow morning.   <\/p>\n<p>All media houses are invited to a briefing by Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana after the sentencing.  <\/p>\n<p>Date: Friday, 26 March 2021<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Elliotdale Regional Court<\/p>\n<p>Time: 09:00<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLIOTDALE &#8211; The 32-year-old accused, Nowa Makula will be sentenced by the Elliotdale Regional Court on Friday, 26 March 2021 for the murder of six family members that he committed on the night of 25 November 2020 at Sidabekweni village in Elliotdale.M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elliotdale Regional Court to sentence the axe murder accused - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elliotdale Regional Court to sentence the axe murder accused - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ELLIOTDALE - The 32-year-old accused, Nowa Makula will be sentenced by the Elliotdale Regional Court on Friday, 26 March 2021 for the murder of six family members that he committed on the night of 25 November 2020 at Sidabekweni village in Elliotdale.M...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sjadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b5258049232dc72b42ad1073df5c990f\"},\"headline\":\"Elliotdale Regional Court to sentence the axe murder accused\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\"},\"wordCount\":150,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Human Rights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\",\"name\":\"Elliotdale Regional Court to sentence the axe murder accused - South Africa Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/elliotdale-regional-court-to-sentence-the-axe-murder-accused\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Elliotdale Regional Court to sentence the axe murder accused\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa Journal\",\"description\":\"Hub for all the Latest News &amp; 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