{"id":184141,"date":"2024-11-08T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-officers-caught-on-video-taking-bribes-remanded-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:11:09","slug":"zimbabwe-police-officers-caught-on-video-taking-bribes-remanded-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-officers-caught-on-video-taking-bribes-remanded-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Officers Caught On Video Taking Bribes Remanded in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers who were nabbed collecting bribes from commuter omnibus drivers over the weekend have appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">James Chifamba (46) and Trymore Mukunza (36) appeared before Harare magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa charged with criminal abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">They were remanded in custody to Monday after their lawyers indicated that they wanted to file a written bail application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to the State outline &#8220;on November 2 2024, after Mabvuku traffic lights along Mutare&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070504.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>Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers who were nabbed collecting bribes from commuter omnibus drivers over the weekend have appeared in court. James Chifamba (46) and Trymore Mukunza (36) appeared before Harare magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa charged with criminal abuse of office. They were remanded in custody to Monday after their lawyers indicated that they wanted [&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":[258,256,7015,6646,11828,257,6749,662,8581,254,8066,4686,421],"class_list":["post-184141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribes","tag-caught","tag-custody","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-remanded","tag-south-africa-today","tag-video","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184141","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=184141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184141\/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=184141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}