{"id":193988,"date":"2025-03-19T19:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-geza-demands-journalist-mhlangas-immediate-release\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:19:39","slug":"zimbabwe-geza-demands-journalist-mhlangas-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-geza-demands-journalist-mhlangas-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Geza Demands Journalist Mhlanga&#8217;s Immediate Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Expelled Zanu-PF Central Committee member and war veteran, Blessed Geza, resurfaced on Tuesday night, unleashing a scathing attack on Zimbabwe&#8217;s Chief Justice Luke Malaba, ordering him to release jailed journalist Blessed Mhlanga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mhlanga was arrested after Heart and Soul Television (HSTV), which he heads, exclusively broadcast Geza&#8217;s explosive press briefings. In these briefings, the war veteran called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down, citing a litany of reasons, chief among them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190379.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>Expelled Zanu-PF Central Committee member and war veteran, Blessed Geza, resurfaced on Tuesday night, unleashing a scathing attack on Zimbabwe&#8217;s Chief Justice Luke Malaba, ordering him to release jailed journalist Blessed Mhlanga. Mhlanga was arrested after Heart and Soul Television (HSTV), which he heads, exclusively broadcast Geza&#8217;s explosive press briefings. In these briefings, the war [&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":[258,256,6979,50582,7277,50897,257,6011,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demands","tag-geza","tag-journalist","tag-mhlangas","tag-news","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988","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=193988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988\/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=193988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}