{"id":178821,"date":"2024-08-19T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-city-of-harare-officials-jailed-10-years-each-for-corrupt-land-deals\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:42:00","slug":"zimbabwe-former-city-of-harare-officials-jailed-10-years-each-for-corrupt-land-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-former-city-of-harare-officials-jailed-10-years-each-for-corrupt-land-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Former City of Harare Officials Jailed 10 Years Each for Corrupt Land Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">HIGH Court of Zimbabwe Judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero has slapped former City of Harare officials, Stanley Ndemera and Emmanuel Mutambirwa with 10 years&#8217; imprisonment for criminal abuse of duty after they entered illegal land deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Ndemera, the former acting finance director, and Mutambirwa, the valuer and estates manager, were arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission for illegally parcelling out commercial stands on land leased to Old Hararians Sports Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The State case, led by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408190059.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 of Zimbabwe Judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero has slapped former City of Harare officials, Stanley Ndemera and Emmanuel Mutambirwa with 10 years&#8217; imprisonment for criminal abuse of duty after they entered illegal land deals. Ndemera, the former acting finance director, and Mutambirwa, the valuer and estates manager, were arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission [&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":[258,256,6603,11894,7844,500,5696,6122,257,6651,254,5114,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-corrupt","tag-deals","tag-harare","tag-jailed","tag-land","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178821","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=178821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178821\/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=178821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}