{"id":179873,"date":"2024-09-04T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pfs-mazowe-north-mp-up-for-raping-ex-wife-at-gunpoint\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:42:09","slug":"zimbabwe-zanu-pfs-mazowe-north-mp-up-for-raping-ex-wife-at-gunpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zanu-pfs-mazowe-north-mp-up-for-raping-ex-wife-at-gunpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF&#8217;s Mazowe North MP Up for Raping Ex-Wife At Gunpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Zanu PF Mazowe North legislator, Tsungai Makumbe has appeared in court for allegedly raping his ex-wife, impregnating and infecting her with HIV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">He appeared before Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa on Tuesday and was remanded out of custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Makumbe is expected back in court on October 3 awaiting his trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The rape allegedly took place in November 2023 and was reported early this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">It is alleged that Makumbe went to the complainant&#8217;s residence where he called her outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">It was around 11 pm and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040080.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>Zanu PF Mazowe North legislator, Tsungai Makumbe has appeared in court for allegedly raping his ex-wife, impregnating and infecting her with HIV. He appeared before Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa on Tuesday and was remanded out of custody. Makumbe is expected back in court on October 3 awaiting his trial. The rape allegedly took place in November [&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":[258,256,10285,12902,11778,257,6732,1601,254,22525,4686,421],"class_list":["post-179873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exwife","tag-gunpoint","tag-mazowe","tag-news","tag-north","tag-raping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanupfs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873","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=179873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873\/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=179873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}