{
  "id": 12614919,
  "title": "Court lifts ban on reporting witness testimony in AKA and Tibz trial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/court-lifts-ban-on-reporting-witness-testimony-in-aka-and-tibz-trial",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T11:08:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/mercury/news/2026-10-07-court-lifts-ban-on-reporting-witness-testimony-in-aka-and-tibz-trial/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Durban High Court has amended its reporting directive, allowing journalists to publish or broadcast witness evidence while protecting the identities and personal details of witnesses in the murder trial of Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}