{"id":2092,"date":"2026-01-17T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:33:38","slug":"man-stabbed-to-death-in-diepsloot-ext-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Man Stabbed to Death in Diepsloot Ext. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Diepsloot Ext 7 | A man was found stabbed to death early on Friday morning in Ext 7, Diepsloot, raising safety concerns among residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to community members, the body was discovered at around 05:00 when people were leaving their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and forensic services were called to the scene, where the man was later confirmed deceased. SAPS cordoned off the area as investigations got underway, and the body remained at the scene until approximately 12:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents have been urged to remain vigilant, walk in groups where possible, and report any suspicious activity to the police as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diepsloot Ext 7 | A man was found stabbed to death early on Friday morning in Ext 7, Diepsloot, raising safety concerns among residents. According to community members, the body&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,248,26,68,157],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","tag-crime-prevention-in-gauteng","tag-crime-update","tag-diepsloot-news","tag-gauteng-community-safety","tag-joburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}