A South African man accused of keeping his children chained in a hostel room for eight years has been remanded in police custody.<\/p>\n
The 50-year-old man appeared at a court in Alexandra, a township north of Johannesburg, on charges of child neglect.<\/p>\n
The siblings, aged nine, 14, 18 and 24, all showed visible signs of injuries to their ankles and wrists, police say.<\/p>\n
They were found after the 24-year-old, alleged to be mentally ill, escaped.<\/p>\n
Shocked<\/strong><\/p>\n The father reportedly said he locked them up for their own safety.<\/p>\n The police reportedly had to hold back angry residents who wanted to attack the 50-year old and his wife after they children were discovered in Nobuhle hostel.<\/p>\n Neighbours described the living conditions in the two-roomed house as “appalling” reports say.<\/p>\n Mfihleni Ndaonde, who had lived at the hostel for nine years, said she was shocked when the story broke.<\/p>\n “I live right next door to them but I never saw or heard the kids. I see Emmanuel leaving for work. He makes sure his room is always locked,” the Daily Sun newspaper quotes her as saying.<\/p>\n The man will appear in court on 6 June for a formal bail application.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A South African man accused of keeping his children chained in a hostel room for eight years has been remanded in police custody. The 50-year-old man appeared at a court in Alexandra, a township north of Johannesburg, on charges of child neglect. The siblings, aged nine, 14, 18 and 24, all showed visible signs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14,7],"class_list":["post-22283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}