{"id":188916,"date":"2025-01-18T04:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-disappointed-by-the-outcome-jailed-mpofu-chimombe-to-file-an-appeal-following-dismissal-of-bail-application\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T04:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:19:42","slug":"zimbabwe-disappointed-by-the-outcome-jailed-mpofu-chimombe-to-file-an-appeal-following-dismissal-of-bail-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-disappointed-by-the-outcome-jailed-mpofu-chimombe-to-file-an-appeal-following-dismissal-of-bail-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Disappointed By the Outcome &#8211; Jailed Mpofu, Chimombe to File an Appeal Following Dismissal of Bail Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Embattled business partners Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe have said they will be approaching the Supreme Court to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing their application for bail pending appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The two are accused of siphoning US$7 from the government using a non-existent company which had won a tender to supply goats for the Presidential Goats Scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda on Thursday threw out the duo&#8217;s application ruling that they are facing a very serious offence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170348.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>Embattled business partners Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe have said they will be approaching the Supreme Court to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing their application for bail pending appeal. The two are accused of siphoning US$7 from the government using a non-existent company which had won a tender to supply goats for the [&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":[258,256,8992,11814,7900,43492,14378,7350,7241,5696,9782,257,6689,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-application","tag-bail","tag-chimombe","tag-disappointed","tag-dismissal","tag-file","tag-jailed","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-outcome","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188916","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=188916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188916\/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=188916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}