{The 28-year-old South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier Moalosi “Bushi” Mokhothu who died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been laid to rest in Botshabelo, east of Bloemfontein.}<\/p>\n
Mokhothu was killed during a skirmish with rebels in the DRC on December 19, 2016.<\/p>\n
It was a sad moment for friends, family members and colleagues. Many described him as a humble, dedicated and loving soul.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to remember Bushi because of his calmness and he was always energetic and he was striving for his goal to be a soldier and he knew he would be a soldier and protect his country,\u201d his cousin Nthabiseng Mokhothu said. <\/p>\n
The family is finding it hard to come to terms with his passing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{The 28-year-old South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier Moalosi “Bushi” Mokhothu who died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been laid to rest in Botshabelo, east of Bloemfontein.} Mokhothu was killed during a skirmish with rebels in the DRC on December 19, 2016. It was a sad moment for friends, family members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2505],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-sabc"],"bylines":[{"id":2505,"name":"SABC","slug":"sabc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2505,"name":"SABC","slug":"sabc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31663"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31663"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}