{"id":194183,"date":"2025-03-21T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-journalist-mhlanga-denied-bail-on-appeal-by-high-court\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:23:13","slug":"zimbabwe-journalist-mhlanga-denied-bail-on-appeal-by-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-journalist-mhlanga-denied-bail-on-appeal-by-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Journalist Mhlanga Denied Bail On Appeal By High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Blessed Mhlanga has been denied bail on appeal by the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He is accused of transmitting information inciting public violence following a press conference by war veteran Blessed Geza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He was denied bail by Magistrate Farai Gwitima, who ruled that if granted bail, Mhlanga was likely to interfere with witnesses who are his junior subordinates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The magistrate also said his lawyers were trying to trivialize a huge offence by treating it lightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Gwitima&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210424.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>Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Blessed Mhlanga has been denied bail on appeal by the High Court. He is accused of transmitting information inciting public violence following a press conference by war veteran Blessed Geza. He was denied bail by Magistrate Farai Gwitima, who ruled that if granted bail, Mhlanga was likely to interfere with [&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":[258,256,8992,7900,6185,7634,6184,7277,50721,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-bail","tag-court","tag-denied","tag-high","tag-journalist","tag-mhlanga","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194183","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=194183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194183\/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=194183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}