{"id":174912,"date":"2024-06-20T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-activists-to-further-languish-in-jail-as-investigating-officer-rushes-to-attend-to-pregnant-wife-midway-through-testimony\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:21:08","slug":"zimbabwe-opposition-activists-to-further-languish-in-jail-as-investigating-officer-rushes-to-attend-to-pregnant-wife-midway-through-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-opposition-activists-to-further-languish-in-jail-as-investigating-officer-rushes-to-attend-to-pregnant-wife-midway-through-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Opposition Activists to Further Languish in Jail As Investigating Officer Rushes to Attend to Pregnant Wife Midway Through Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Panganai Gwati, the Investigating Officer in the matter Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists are accused of stoning police officers on Thursday abandoned the witness stand midway through his testimony after receiving news that his pregnant wife had been hospitalised in Rusape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The suspects will further languish in jail awaiting the finalisation of their bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Prosecutor Thomas Chanakira asked for a postponement of the hearing stating that no one was there to continue with the testimony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406200699.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>Panganai Gwati, the Investigating Officer in the matter Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists are accused of stoning police officers on Thursday abandoned the witness stand midway through his testimony after receiving news that his pregnant wife had been hospitalised in Rusape. The suspects will further languish in jail awaiting the finalisation of their bail. [&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":[6008,258,256,7395,10199,7354,13917,48831,257,10869,5675,6757,41618,254,22538,8963,4686,421],"class_list":["post-174912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attend","tag-investigating","tag-jail","tag-languish","tag-midway","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-opposition","tag-pregnant","tag-rushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-testimony","tag-wife","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174912","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=174912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174912\/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=174912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}