{"id":179080,"date":"2024-08-23T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-streets-lights-scandal-fraud-accused-mpofu-chimombe-claim-victimization-by-state-file-new-bail-application\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T07:57:11","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-streets-lights-scandal-fraud-accused-mpofu-chimombe-claim-victimization-by-state-file-new-bail-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-streets-lights-scandal-fraud-accused-mpofu-chimombe-claim-victimization-by-state-file-new-bail-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Streets Lights Scandal &#8211; Fraud-Accused Mpofu, Chimombe Claim Victimization By State, File New Bail Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Fraud-accused Zanu PF businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have filed a new bail application in a matter they are accused of falsifying documents to secure a Harare City Council street lights tender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Their bail request is being heard by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa who is expected to hand down her ruling on the application next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The latest move follows dismissal of their bail request by the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Through their lawyers Ashiel Mugiya and Tapson Dzvetero, the two had approached the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230108.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>Fraud-accused Zanu PF businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have filed a new bail application in a matter they are accused of falsifying documents to secure a Harare City Council street lights tender. Their bail request is being heard by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa who is expected to hand down her ruling on the application next [&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":[258,256,11814,7900,43492,8667,7241,13712,500,13546,9782,257,7454,254,6017,6751,43338,4686,421],"class_list":["post-179080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-application","tag-bail","tag-chimombe","tag-claim","tag-file","tag-fraudaccused","tag-harare","tag-lights","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-scandal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-streets","tag-victimization","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179080","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=179080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179080\/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=179080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}