{"id":175641,"date":"2024-07-01T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-judge-urges-court-interpreters-to-learn-street-lingo-as-key-gen-z-witness-testifies\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:44:01","slug":"zimbabwe-judge-urges-court-interpreters-to-learn-street-lingo-as-key-gen-z-witness-testifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-judge-urges-court-interpreters-to-learn-street-lingo-as-key-gen-z-witness-testifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Judge Urges Court Interpreters to Learn Street Lingo As Key Gen Z Witness Testifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">High Court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has urged all court interpreters to learn street lingo in a bid to accommodate Gen Zs using slang during court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The judge said this while delivering his judgment in a case where &#8220;jealous&#8221; brothers, Eric and Brian Kagoro were accused of killing their father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The case was difficult as the key witness, their younger brother&#8217;s testimony was dominated by street lingo which made it difficult for the interpreter to translate for the court as she&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407010033.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>High Court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has urged all court interpreters to learn street lingo in a bid to accommodate Gen Zs using slang during court proceedings. The judge said this while delivering his judgment in a case where &#8220;jealous&#8221; brothers, Eric and Brian Kagoro were accused of killing their father. The case was difficult [&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":[258,256,6185,11240,48917,7511,7274,8334,48918,257,254,7714,13799,6810,7896,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-gen","tag-interpreters","tag-judge","tag-key","tag-learn","tag-lingo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-street","tag-testifies","tag-urges","tag-witness","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175641","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=175641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175641\/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=175641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}