{"id":181089,"date":"2024-09-22T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-councillor-duma-remanded-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T23:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T21:27:59","slug":"zimbabwe-ccc-councillor-duma-remanded-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ccc-councillor-duma-remanded-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: CCC Councillor Duma Remanded in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillor for ward 21 Blessing Duma has been remanded in custody awaiting bail hearing which is set to commence this Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Duma also the chairperson of the city of Harare Audit committee is facing extortion charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He briefly appeared before Magistrate Stanford Mambanje on Thursday and was not asked to plead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Appearing for the State, Mercy Masamvi alleged that sometime in June 2024, two provisional allocation offer letters of two unserviced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200083.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>Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillor for ward 21 Blessing Duma has been remanded in custody awaiting bail hearing which is set to commence this Friday. Duma also the chairperson of the city of Harare Audit committee is facing extortion charges. He briefly appeared before Magistrate Stanford Mambanje on Thursday and was not asked [&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":[258,256,41401,17818,11828,49585,257,8581,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ccc","tag-councillor","tag-custody","tag-duma","tag-news","tag-remanded","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089","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=181089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089\/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=181089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}