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A Harare man claiming to be King Munhumutapa, with powers to appoint and dethrone traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe, appeared in court on Wednesday facing charges of undermining the authority of the President.<\/p>\n
Traditional chieftainships in Zimbabwe are hereditary.<\/p>\n
The heir is formally appointed by the President, who is bound to follow traditional norms of the community involved and generally confirm the person whom the community agrees is the legal heir to the chieftainship.<\/p>\n
Timothy Chiminya, of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A Harare man claiming to be King Munhumutapa, with powers to appoint and dethrone traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe, appeared in court on Wednesday facing charges of undermining the authority of the President. Traditional chieftainships in Zimbabwe are hereditary. The heir is formally appointed by the President, who is bound to follow traditional norms of the […]<\/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":[258,256,6510,11828,6891,49521,257,8581,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-custody","tag-fake","tag-munhumutapa","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\/187031","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=187031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187031\/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=187031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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