{"id":174181,"date":"2024-06-09T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-vice-president-mphoko-loses-supreme-court-appeal\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:56:22","slug":"zimbabwe-former-vice-president-mphoko-loses-supreme-court-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-vice-president-mphoko-loses-supreme-court-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Former Vice President Mphoko Loses Supreme Court Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by former vice president, Phelekezela Mphoko who was challenging the trashing of his application for discharge by both the magistrate and the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mphoko is charged with criminal abuse of office after he allegedly ordered the release of two former Zinara bosses who were being held on fraud allegations at Avondale Police Station in 2016 when he was still the VP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Now he is set to return before a magistrate for the continuation of his trial to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070175.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by former vice president, Phelekezela Mphoko who was challenging the trashing of his application for discharge by both the magistrate and the High Court. Mphoko is charged with criminal abuse of office after he allegedly ordered the release of two former Zinara bosses who were being held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8992,6185,10569,9425,257,2450,254,9498,8505,4686,421],"class_list":["post-174181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-court","tag-loses","tag-mphoko","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-vice","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}