{"id":657460,"date":"2019-07-16T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>South African former footballer Marc Batchelor has been shot dead near his home in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Batchelor played for Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was attacked by two men who were dri"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:00:37","slug":"south-african-former-footballer-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/16\/south-african-former-footballer-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"South African former footballer shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>South African former footballer Marc Batchelor has been shot dead near his home in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Batchelor played for Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was attacked by two men who were driving a motorbike,\u201d a police spokesman Col Lungelo Dlamini\u00a0told South African Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was about to drive into his premises. The suspects shot several times at him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini added: \u201cHe died inside the car and they drove away without taking anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage, we are still investigating what the motive for the attack was and these suspects have not yet been identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini also\u00a0told eNCA news\u00a0Batchelor was travelling with a gardener, who was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>South African police are investigating if the killing of\u00a0 Marc Batchelor\u00a0was a professional hit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African former footballer Marc Batchelor has been shot dead near his home in Johannesburg. Batchelor played for Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa. \u201cHe was attacked by two men who were driving a motorbike,\u201d a police spokesman Col Lungelo Dlamini\u00a0told South African Broadcasting Corporation. \u201cHe was about to drive into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South African former footballer shot dead - Ghanamma.com<\/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:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/16\/south-african-former-footballer-shot-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"South African former footballer shot dead - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"South African former footballer Marc Batchelor has been shot dead near his home in Johannesburg. 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